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.
James Baldwin
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- The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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