If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom 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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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 was a country he knew nothing about.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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