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2 August 1924–30 November 1987
Also known as Baldwin, James, James A. Baldwin, Robert Dudley, James [1924 - 1987] Baldwin, jAMES bALDWIN, James Baldwin PhD, James. Baldwin, James Boldwin, james baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin, James Baldwin, Alston Anderson, Owen Dodson, William Melvin Kelley, Langston Hughes, Ernest J. Gaines, Richard Wright, Ann Petry
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.
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*I deleted this review then regretted deleting it. Here it is again! "And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One…
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I truly had not realized that Harlem had so many stores until I saw them all smashed open; the first time the word wealth ever entered my mind in relation to Harlem was when I saw it scattered in the streets.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
Reviews serve many purposes, but the main, sometimes disavowed, one is essentially to answer the question for would-be readers, "Is this worth my time? Should I read this book?" It's kind of nice that I don't really have to try to answer that here. It's Giova…
