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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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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 be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.
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Writing is a political instrument.
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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 a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.
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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.
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There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.
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... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
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At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
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Great art can only be created out of love.
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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