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Jan 09, 2022
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James Baldwin in the Paris studio of Beauford Delaney, in a still from the documentary short Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris, 1970. Directed by Terence Dixon.

I’m up early with jet lag, thinking about James Baldwin.

I often think about Baldwin when I am leaving or returning to France. Was there ever a person more elegant? In speech, in movement, …

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