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  • The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

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  • To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

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    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

  • The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

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James A. Baldwin

  • Born: August 2, 1924
  • Died: December 1, 1987
  • Occupation: Novelist
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