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I had not known that when one’s shoelaces and belt have been removed one is, in the strangest way, demoralized. The necessity of shuffling and the necessity of holding up one’s trousers with one hand turn one into a rag doll.
James Baldwin, “Equal in Paris,” Notes of a Native Son (1955)

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