Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's belie…

James A. Baldwin
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ✨ Stranger in the Village, Harper's, October 1953.
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. ✨ Stranger in the Village, Harper's, October 1953.

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