"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 A. Baldwin
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.“
-James A. Baldwin
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"People can cry much easier than they can change."
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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
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"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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"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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