"Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth……" — James A. Baldwin
"Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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