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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

James Baldwin

There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Arrive People Perpetual World
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWIN

Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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According Change People Person Reality World
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
JAMES BALDWIN

Cruel Death Die Live Love
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
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

Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
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
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWIN

Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner

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