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Tell Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I…
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control…
- All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
- For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be…
- Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must…
- It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in…
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