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James Baldwin

“It doesn't do to look too hard into this mystery, which is as far from being simple as it is from being safe. We don't know enough about ourselves. I think it's better to know that you don't know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that's why so many people are so lost.”

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
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If Beale Street Could Talk If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
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