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Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James Baldwin

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Mirror People Person Truth
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
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
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
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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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
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
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
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

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