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James Baldwin
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James Baldwin was an influential American writer, essayist, and social critic who lived from 1924 to 1987 and wrote extensively about race, identity, and inequality in the United States. His work remains widely read and studied today because of his powerful voice in exploring the African American experience and his lasting impact on American literature and civil rights discourse.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 August 1924
- Died
- 30 November 1987
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Blues de Beale Street / If Beale Street Could Talk
- James Baldwin Collection
- Faulkner and desegregation
- Sonny's Blues
- Harlem Quartet
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Quotes
- “Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”
- “The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.”
- “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
- “It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.”
- “When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or 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, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad nigger so there won't be any more like him.”
- “You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.”
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- James Baldwin
- date of birth
- 1924-08-02
- date of death
- 1987-12-01
- birth name
- James Arthur Baldwin
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- James Baldwin
- name in native language
- James Baldwin
- start of work period
- 1947-00-00
- described at URL
- heritage.humanists.uk/james-baldwin
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James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. His 1955 essay collection Notes of a Native Son helped establish his reputation as a voice for human equality. His 1965 debate with William Buckley is regarded as one of the most influential debates on race in the United States. Baldwin was an influential public figure and orator, especially during the civil rights movement in the United States.
Baldwin's fiction posed fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures. Themes of masculinity, sexuality, race, and class intertwine to create intricate narratives that influenced both the civil rights movement and the gay liberation movement in mid-20th-century America. His protagonists are often, but not exclusively, African-American, and gay and bisexual men feature prominently in his work (as in his 1956 novel Giovanni's Room). His characters typically face internal and external obstacles in their search for self- and social acceptance.