Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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