Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always kno…

James A. Baldwin
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. ✨ Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.
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