Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a Black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
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Original Citation
Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Village Voice. Interview by Richard Goldstein. 26 June 1984.
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Current Citation
Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Melville House, 2014.
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