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James Baldwin.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist. His books include Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time.

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1924 – 1987
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Harlem, New York City, USA
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“Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are.”

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