On Reading James Baldwin
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an American writer who chose to live in France to be free of Jim Crow. There’s been quite a renaissance of interest in him over the last few years, including documentaries. (YouTube is full of them.)
Goodreads.com has more than 2,100 quotes from Baldwin, many of them quite eloquent and speaking to life in America, racial iss…
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