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You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.James Baldwin
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent--which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.Unknown
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We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later becomeUnknown
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When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had. It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.James Baldwin