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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin

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Nur in seiner Musik, die Amerikaner bewundern können, weil eine schützende Sentimentalität ihr Verständnis einschränkt, konnten die Neger in Amerika seine Geschichte erzählen.

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