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James Baldwin

James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.