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    James Baldwin: Portraits of a Native Son

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    New York, June 19, 1963

    In his speeches and writings, James Baldwin describes a bleak, lonely, hungry exile in which he and all American blacks, whatever their station and fortune, go from dawn to dusk in constant terror. His early exile began in Harlem's streets, which he later said were filled with "beautiful black people" despoiled by the pressure of the white world.

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