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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

James Baldwin

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
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
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
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
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
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.
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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
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
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
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

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