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Notes of a Native Son (1955)
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Harlem had needed something to smash. To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.
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At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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August 2, 1924
Died:
December 1, 1987
(aged 63)
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