"(“How do you feel about America? There are some who claim it has become a land of greed.”) MA: It doesn't have to be. It has been rapidly turning into that. One sees what happened with the Indians first, and the black Americans second, and every other visible group. But I don't believe that's all there is, or else Paul and I would never live here. I can sell my books I can live like James Baldwin in the south of France, or in West Africa. But I believe there's something else. There is a spirit. And it's almost like Martin Buber, a good-evil conflict."
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1975 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
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Martin Buber
1878 – 1965
österreichischer jüdischer Religionsphilosoph
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