James Baldwin1924–1987- “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”
- “Notes of a Native Son” originally in Harper’s (November 1955)
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
“Stranger in the Village”You don’t realize that you’re intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
“James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick” interview (27 May 1984)Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
“Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem” originally in Esquire (July 1960)- “Letter from a Region of My Mind”
- “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
“In Search of a Majority” address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960)Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
“As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in The New York Times Book Review (January 14, 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall KenanThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
“The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy”- The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Just Above My Head (1979)
- “The Harlem Ghetto” originally in Commentary (February 1948)
- The Fire Next Time (1963)
