A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
JAMES A. BALDWINLife is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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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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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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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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A devotion to humanity is… too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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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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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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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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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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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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