African-american-authors Quote by Aberjhani

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handedly revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."

— Raoul Peck

I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized…

— Raoul Peck

It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life.

— KiKi Layne

James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is…

— Raoul Peck

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He…

— Raoul Peck

“When I was 10, I read James Baldwin's 'Another Country,' and that book broke me. Not because I was encountering homosexual sex and love…

— Chris Abani

“Most, I loved James Baldwin's essays. There was to a Baldwin essay a metropolitan elegance I envied, a refusal of the livid. In Baldwin…

— Richard Rodriguez

I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power,…

— Hilton Als

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“And the nights, bigger than imagining: black and gusty and enormous, disordered and wild with stars.”

— Donna Tartt