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JAMES BALDWIN ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE

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What does the American writer James Baldwin think about reading?…

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
~ James Baldwin  (1924-1987)

 

Who was James Baldwin?

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. (source wikipedia)

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The importance of Literature, James Baldwin

JAMES BALDWIN ~ THE VALUE OF READING

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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

― James Baldwin

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