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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
All racists are irresponsible.
Man cannot live by profit alone.
All art is a kind of confession.
Employment is my right my destiny.
Writing is a political instrument.
No man is a devil in his own mind.
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
You cannot fix what you will not face.
You write in order to change the world.
Great art can only be created out of love.
Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
You took the best, so why not take the rest?
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
We can make America what America must become.
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.
Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
A man's balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
