Interviewer: Are you still in despair about the world?
James Baldwin: I never have been in despair about the world.
I’ve been enraged by it. I don’t think I’m in despair.
I can’t afford despair. I can’t tell my nephew, my niece.
You can’t tell the children there’s no hope.
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