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James Baldwin
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James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
James BaldwinNovelist
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
James Baldwin
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
James Baldwin
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James BaldwinNovelist
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
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