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Quote by James Baldwin
If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person

If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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Innocence
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James Baldwin
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Art
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James Baldwin
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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James Baldwin
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Society

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, were not there yet. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Society

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. – will.i.am

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Society

What is the use of a house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

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When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond. – Arabic Proverb

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A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French

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You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco. – Bruce Bye

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My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, its incredibly romantic. – Christina Ricci

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movies