"Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world."

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Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

— James A. Baldwin