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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.

James Baldwin

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Hide Purpose
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
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
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner 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
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner 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
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Change People Reality World Writing
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People

If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.

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