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James Baldwin

"And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white."

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"And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white."

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Akiroq Brost

"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."

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Akiroq Brost

"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"

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Akiroq Brost

"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."

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Akiroq Brost

"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."

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Akiroq Brost

"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

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Akiroq Brost

"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."

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Akiroq Brost

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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Akiroq Brost

"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."

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Akiroq Brost

"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."

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Akiroq Brost

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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James Baldwin
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

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James Baldwin
"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."

Psychology

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James Baldwin
"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."

Age

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James Baldwin
"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

People

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James Baldwin
"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."

Power

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James Baldwin
"It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate."

Spiritual

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James Baldwin
"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Education

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James Baldwin
"This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art."

Art

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James Baldwin
"Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating."

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James Baldwin
"She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away."

Romance

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