All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if…

James A. Baldwin
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. ✨ Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.
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