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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration. . .

Source: Many Thousands Gone, in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, N.J., Nov. -Dec. 1951; repr. in Notes of a Native Son, pt. 1, 1955).
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.

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