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James Baldwin

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 art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
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
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
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
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
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
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
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
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
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Courage Inspirational Leave Life World

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