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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

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MORE QUOTES BY James Baldwin

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frig...”

James Baldwin

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose”

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become ”

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.”

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