People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead. (James Baldwin)

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

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