#James Baldwin

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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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind

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And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life. Everything’s happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then,

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Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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