Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. - James A. Baldwin

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James A. Baldwin: "Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field."

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Ability	Alchemize	Americans	Battle
Bitter	Confection	Contradictions	Decoration
Discussion	Field	Given	Heroism
Innocuous	Into	Moral	Most
Piquant	Proud	Public	Remarkable
Such	Transform	Truths	Unhappily

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