"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."
-James A. Baldwin
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.“
-James A. Baldwin
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"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."
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