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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.

James Baldwin

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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWIN

Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWIN

Attitude Insult One Liner Revenge Self Love Thinking
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
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN

Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
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
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust
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
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWIN

Circumstances History Myself Time
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
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual

Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.

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