Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.
--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.
--James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son
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 Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession,
or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
--James Baldwin
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