The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
JAMES A. BALDWINYou want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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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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I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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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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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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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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One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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You write in order to change the world.
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