| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5312 |
| QUOTATION: | All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Baldwin (1924–1987), U.S. author. repr. in Notes of a Native Son, pt. 2 (1955). “The Harlem Ghetto,” Commentary (New York, Feb. 1948). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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