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 BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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 don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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