'The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers'
— James Baldwin.
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BRDC Rising StarQuotes from the social critic James Arthur Baldwin—writer, novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist.
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – James Baldwin
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
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It has taken my father's time,
my mother's time,
my uncle's time,
my brothers' and my sisters' time,
my nieces' and my nephews' time.
How much time do you want for your 'progress'. - James Baldwin
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"When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing he is judged a criminal and treated like one."
- James Baldwin
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It was #books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWIN
#amwriting #reading #writing
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James Baldwin and Bob Dylan, December 13, 1963.
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James Baldwin in conversation with Nikki Giovanni(1971).
We’re all implicated in an anti-Black society.
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The documentary based on James Baldwin unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, which tells the story of race in modern America.
I Am Not Your Negro (2016) Directed by Raoul Peck
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James Baldwin's University of California Lecture On Being Black in America.
(Berkeley, California) (January 15th, 1979)
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
James Baldwin.
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