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Below are 11 must-see clips of the great writer and thinker talking about race in America ― everything from the concept of the “nigger” to the prospect of an American black president. Though decades have passed since he spoke them, the words still strike a chord today:
James Baldwin was one of America’s greatest thinkers and writers on the subject of race. What would he have thought about present-day protests against police brutality and for racial equity?
Here are some of Baldwin’s influential quotes on everything from life and love to racism and justice: On Black Americans: “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to...
Suicidal, Mean, Ideas. Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people. James A. Baldwin. Home, Odds, White.
James Baldwin, in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Dan Budnik/Magnolia Pictures. Editor's note: This piece includes quotes from James Baldwin in which he uses a racial slur....
If The Fire Next Time, Baldwin’s powerful polemic published in 1963, was prophetic, No Name was his own reckoning. It was his answer to how we might respond to the collapse of the Black-freedom...
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.” – If Beale Street Could Talk. “The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.” - The Devil Finds Work. “Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”
