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- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even…
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
- The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and…
- All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not…
- And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
- Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or…
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
- Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
- No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and,…
- If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay,…
- There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they…
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