Many of us talk about poverty from a bookish sense, never having experientially interacted with the malaise in its raw form.
Hence, we can talk indifferently and forever about fixing it, yet do almost nothing tangible apart from seeming to work. James Baldwin is one of those writers that so dramatically captured the predicament of living in deprivation.
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