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.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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