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James Baldwin

“If dirty words frighten you...I really don’t know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.”

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
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Giovanni’s Room Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
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