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Another Country
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A complex exploration of race, sexuality, and identity as interconnected characters navigate their lives in 1950s New York City.

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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

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You've got to know where you come from, love, and you've got to know where you're going.

James Baldwin

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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

James Baldwin

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