Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is somethi…

James A. Baldwin
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be ✨ Nobody Knows My Name (1961) Notes for a Hypothetical Novel
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