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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.

James A. Baldwin

The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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Art Order Real
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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Brother Mean Reality
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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Anger Argument Rage
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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Feelings People Thinking
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Change Life Needs
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Bear Humiliation Male
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Done May People Spiritual
… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Human Miracle Unprecedented
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational People
The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Decision Education Look
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
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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Case Death Institution
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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Racism Thinking White
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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Attention Eye Men
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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People Responsibility Writing
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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Greed Needs Writing

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