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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.

James Baldwin

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN

Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.

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