A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
JAMES A. BALDWINA man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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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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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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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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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 writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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You write in order to change the world.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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