There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
JAMES A. BALDWINIf 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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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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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 astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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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 write in order to change the world.
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Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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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 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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And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
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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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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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
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