“I knew Richard [Wright] and I loved him. [... ] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.”

— James Baldwin

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-reflections.html in The New York Times (27 May 1984)

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

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