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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 2nd, 1924

Died: December 1st, 1987

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