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.
JAMES A. BALDWINThe 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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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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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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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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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 world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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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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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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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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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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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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Life 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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