Autobiographical Quote by Carrie Brownstein

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

— Laila Lalami

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

— Patty Griffin

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there…

— Raoul Peck

The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad…

— Brian Tyree Henry

I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there…

— Raoul Peck

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

James Baldwin is probably, for me and for many other people, one of the most extraordinary authors in this country, black or white. And…

— Raoul Peck

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“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

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

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