“I don’t try to be prophetic, as I
don’t sit down to write literature. It is simply this: a writer has to take all
the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one
can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed
to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude
said, ‘I don’t look like that.’ And Picasso replied, ‘You will.’ And he was
right.”
James Baldwin
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