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James Baldwin: “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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James Baldwin: “For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become,
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James Baldwin: “We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed to us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
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James Baldwin: “Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on.
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James Baldwin: “I 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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James Baldwin: “Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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James Baldwin: “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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James Baldwin: “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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James Baldwin: “If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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James Baldwin: “It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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James Baldwin: “The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”  more
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James Baldwin: “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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James Baldwin: “For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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