James Baldwin
"When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
"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."
"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."
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"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."