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W. Kamau Bell on James Baldwin and Maya Angelou

Significant Others

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You Can't Make People Be Your Friends

I was in college, so i don't have any friends who are women. I think all my sort of energy for women was around, like, sexual feeling. So this personis not worth my tell you now rit. And when i realize that, i was like, that's a problem. You can't make people be your friends, but you can certainly figure out how to be a more interesting, open kinder of, more available to friendship person than i had been upn to that point.

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