• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James Baldwin
  American writer 1924-1987
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. unbelievable
2. definitions
3. hideous
4. defeats

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At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions. by : James Baldwin

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