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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

James Baldwin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
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
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.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
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
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
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
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
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

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