Quotes from: James Baldwin

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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being

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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do

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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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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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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them