"All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive."
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James Baldwin "The Harlem Ghetto" originally in Commentary (February 1948), also Notes of a Native Son (1955)
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