Opinionated and unafraid to speak his mind, Baldwin used the force of his prose to challenge and provoke. He's perhaps most well-known for his work on race, yet he also wrote eloquently about the art of reading and writing, which this list highlights. Baldwin himself said, "When one begins to live by habit and by quotation one has begun to stop living." So we hope he would forgive us for quoting ten words from his work and his life.
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