White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept an…

James A. Baldwin
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White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this - which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never - the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. ✨ Letter from a Region of My Mind. The New Yorker, November 17, 1962.
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