“Everything we face, we may not be able to change, but it is certain that what is not faced can never be changed.”
MEMORABLE QUOTES, 22 Mar 2021
James Baldwin – TRANSCEND Media Service
James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in the Western society of the United States during the mid twentieth-century.
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