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Old Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
- Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
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