Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

Topics: Life Quotes, Respect Quotes, Sensuality Quotes

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion,...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion,...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy...

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy...