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  • It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

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    "Autobiographical Notes" by James A. Baldwin (1952), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), archive.nytimes.com.
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It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. - James A. Baldwin
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