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.

James Baldwin

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Topic

Money and sex Sex Poverty

Author

James Baldwin

Source

The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Writer

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United States

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy." Esquire, 1 May 1961.

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

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Baldwin, James. "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel." Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Dial Press, 1961.

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Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

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William Graham Sumner
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Citation

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