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The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin (1924–1987), U.S. author. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem," Nobody Knows My Name (1961).

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