If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had t… - James Baldwin

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If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you — if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

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James Arthur Baldwin (2 August 1924 – 1 December 1987) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and social critic.

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