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Takes Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It…
- People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes…
- Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not…
- All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that…
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