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. BALDWINI met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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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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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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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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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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When the South has trouble with its Negroes – when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place” – it blames “outside agitators” and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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