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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America."

"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
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"We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives."

"The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back."

"The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried."
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