The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES A. BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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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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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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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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If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
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