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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin

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
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
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
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
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
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
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
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature 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
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.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
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
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.
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Pain People Suffering
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
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
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust

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