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Mickey Jones: People have said to me the word that, uh, he was a traitor to folk music, the *pure* music.
Bob Dylan: I'd just about had it, though, I'd had it with the whole scene. And, uh, whether I knew it or didn't know it, I was, uh, lookin' to quit for a while.
unknown: Well, what about the scene? What had you "had it with"? What about the scene were you sick of?
Bob Dylan: Uh, well, ya know, people like *you*, people like, uh, ya know, just, ya know, like bein' pressed and hammered and, uh, bein' expected to answer questions. It's enough to make anybody sick, really.
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Bob Dylan: [while reading a store sign] I'm looking for a place that will collect, clip, bath and return my dog. Kn1 7727, cigarettes and tobacco. Animals and birds bought or sold on commission. animals and birds bought or sold on commission. I want a dog that's gonna collect and clean my bath, return my cigarette, and, and give tobacco to my animals, and give my birds a commission. I want- I'm looking for somebody to sell my dog, collect my clip, buy my animal and straighten out my bird. I'm looking for a place to bathe my bird, buy my dog, collect my clip, sell me cigarrets and comission my bath. I'm looking for a place that's gonna collect my commission, sell my dog, burn my bird, and sell me to the cigarette. Going to bird my buy, collect my will, and bathe my comission. I'm looking for a place that's going to animal my soul, knit my return, bathe my foot and collect my dog. Comission me to sell my animals to the bird to clip and buy my bath and return me back to the cigarettes.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American writer, essayist, dramatist, and social critic. During his life, he has written quite a lot, including six novels, four plays, a dozen collections of essays, a children's book and a volume of poetry
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. His works cover a very wide range. His novel " Go Tell It on the Mountain " is juxtaposed with Richard Wright 's " Native Son " and Ralph Ellison 's " Invisible Man " as a model of African American literature of the 1940s and 1950s. In the development of African American literature after World War II , Baldwin played a linking role and was a "truly essential" writer.
Extended Reading
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan quotes
