Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves. - James Baldwin
" "Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
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About James Baldwin
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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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.
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