You write in order to change the world.
JAMES A. BALDWINThe wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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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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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
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It 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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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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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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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