"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
— Professional

January 1, 1970

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James Baldwin "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)