Baldwin

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“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“It is very nearly impossible ... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)