“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin published Nobody Knows My Name in 1961 as a collection of essays on race, identity, and American life. He grew up in Harlem, raised partly by a stepfather who was a preacher — a man Baldwin observed closely and wrote about with unflinching honesty.
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