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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

James Baldwin

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

Situation Threat Victim Women
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
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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Art Force Reality Represent
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
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
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN

Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
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
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace

It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

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