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James Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1924. In celebration of his birthday: the writer who arrived in Paris in 1948 with forty dollars, what he wrote about living there as a Black American, and his connections to the writers, artists, and places on the pages around his.
The deepest corpus on the site: 316 James Baldwin quotes across essays, interviews, speeches, and 5 of his books — each located in the text it comes from.
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