James A. Baldwin
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. ✨ Autobiographical Notes by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin Notes of a Native Son (1955), archive.nytimes.com.

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