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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

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
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
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
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
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
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
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy People
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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
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.
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Pain People Suffering
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World

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