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I am acerbic. I can be cruel. It's who I am. Right to the bottom. I'm neither proud of this, nor ashamed of it. It simply is.
我生性尖刻，甚至可以很无情。我就是这个样子，从里到外彻头彻尾都是。我既不以此为傲，也不觉得羞愧，这只是个事实。

A man gets tired of living a profligate life.
一个厌倦了放荡不羁生活的人。

To be a colored man in America... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.
在美国做个有色人种……并享受它，你必须非常勇敢、非常冷静、非常幽默以及非常敏感。而且在任何时候都得是一个哲学家。