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Every legend, moreover,...

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Source: from Stranger in the Village.
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.


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