Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I know. That is the astonishing gift of your art and your friendship: You gave us ourselves to think about, to cherish. …
I have been thinking your spoken and written thoughts for so long I believed they were mine.
Toni Morrison ⬩ James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language
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