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Quote by James Baldwin
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with leg

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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