[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
It means so much to be a part of bringing James Baldwin's words to life. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin — AB Copy Share Image
Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” published in The Fire Next Time in… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties,… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“When I was 10, I read James Baldwin's 'Another Country,' and that book broke me. Not because I was encountering homosexual sex… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“I can't tell you how I felt when my father died. But I was able to write Song of Solomon and imagine,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“James Baldwin lived in this house for more than twenty-five years, and all that was left were half a dozen pink teacups… — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“Most, I loved James Baldwin's essays. There was to a Baldwin essay a metropolitan elegance I envied, a refusal of the livid.… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“from across the room, she caught a supportive, conspiratorial wink from James Baldwin and felt, for a moment, seen and known by… — Cynthia Bond Copy Share Image
Growing up as a product of the black civil-rights movement, I had a lot of different models for black weirdness, whether it's… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image
I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice." — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” —James Baldwin” — Wendy Jo Peterson Copy Share Image
I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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