James Baldwin
"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
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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."