
The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review

James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been ali
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