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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.

James Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Imitate Listen Parents
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWIN

Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.

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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.

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