James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore...
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. James Baldwin
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
