"It is never entirely true that you don’t give a shit what others say about you, but you must throw it out of your mind."
— Baldwin, James (1924-1987)
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1984
Metaphor
"It is never entirely true that you don’t give a shit what others say about you, but you must throw it out of your mind."
Metaphor in Context
It is never entirely true that you don’t give a shit what others say about you, but you must throw it out of your mind. I went through a very trying period, after all, where on one side of town I was an Uncle Tom and on the other the Angry Young Man. It could make one's head spin, the number of labels that have been attached to me. And it was inevitably painful, and surprising, and indeed, bewildering. I do care what certain people think about me.
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Citation
Jordan Elgrably, "James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78," Paris Review (Spring 1984). <Link to www.theparisreview.org>
Date of Entry
07/19/2014
