It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
From James Baldwin
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.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
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