The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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