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James     Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son Quotes: We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become
         

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become


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