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James Baldwin - 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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James Baldwin
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Born: August 2, 1924
Died: December 1, 1987 (aged 63)
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