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Artists are here to disturb the peace.

James Baldwin

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
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
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
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
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
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
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
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide

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