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“Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“A few years ago, I would have hated these people with all my heart. Now I pitied them, pitied them in order not to despise them. And this is not the happiest way to feel toward one's countrymen.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“But in order to deal with the untapped and dormant force of the previously subjugated, in order to survive as a human, moving, moral weight in the world, America and all the Western nations will be forced to reëxamine themselves and release themselves from many things that are now taken to be sacred, and to discard nearly all the assumptions that have been used to justify their lives and their anguish and their crimes so long.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall