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 at… - 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.