American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

James A. Baldwin
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  2. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

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  4. I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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