how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do no…

James A. Baldwin
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how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should? ✨ Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
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how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should? ✨ Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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