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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
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I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
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I’m not a separatist. The imagination is integrative. That’s how you make the new — by putting something else with what you’ve got. And I’m unashamedly an American integrationist.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.
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…and yet I am what they think I am.
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I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.
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To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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