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«Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
be given, free as
«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.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
allowed, pay for, to become
«It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
allied, case, ferocious, in any case, justice
«No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
for the first time, happen, happening, happenings, possibly
«People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
in history, trapped, trapping
«Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
Americans, boy, consider, disease, fall in, fall in love, homosexuality, journey
«Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
elders, failed, imitate, listening
«I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believed, negative, positive thinking
«Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
interrupted, interrupting, interrupts, Say It, usually
«The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.»
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