Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
JAMES A. BALDWINIt is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life — without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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