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W. Kamau Bell on James Baldwin and Maya Angelou

Significant Others

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Is There a Book in Her Right?

I wonder with her, how much im coming from the place of needing to explain an experience of america that had not been explained in a widely appealing memoir formed before. I really related to my angelo saying, like, i'm only forty. So then p once she starts writing the book, and probably, i would imagine onc it started, it was like or mabs a torrent. It's just that thing about, like, that's the secret sauce of her, is that i'm, i'm a doer. And so the idea that you have to first get over the fact that your words are worth something, and then you got to do it.

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