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James Baldwin

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Quotes by James Baldwin

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
"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."