I do know James Baldwin was a genius. But I don't know that he was ahead of his time. I think he put to paper what black folks thought then.
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Indeed, the earliest known Af Am writers—Jupiter Hammon & Phillis Wheatley—wrote on themes that Baldwin did, but hundreds of years earlier.
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Anyway. Happy birthday, James Baldwin.pic.twitter.com/lYUhNXAdZW
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