“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”

—  James Baldwin

"In Search of a Majority" address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

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(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

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