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I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the sentence is not intended to show you off, you know. It is not supposed to be “Look at me!” “Look, no hands!” It’s supposed to be a pipeline between the reader and you. One condition of the sentence is to write so well that no one notices that you’re writing.
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Nascido em Harlem, Nova Iorque, Baldwin emergiu como uma voz literária crucial no meio do século XX. Seus escritos, incluindo "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "Notes of a Native Son" e "The Fire Next Time", são aclamados por sua profundidade psicológica e análise social incisiva. Ele abordou corajosamente as injustiças raciais e sociais, tornando-se um ícone para o Movimento pelos Direitos Civis. Baldwin viveu grande parte de sua vida adulta na França, onde continuou a produzir obras influentes até sua morte.