james baldwin

     

In "Go Tell It on the Mountain", John Grimes represents this author of the novel

Trivia about james baldwin

  • His 1962 novel "Another Country" is noted for its frank depiction of various sexual & interracial relationships
  • During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name"
  • "Nobody Knows My Name" (hopefully you do!) is a later work by this "Go Tell It on the Mountain" man
  • Richard Wright helped this "Go Tell It On The Mountain" man win a literary fellowship
  • He followed "Go Tell it on the Mountain" with "Giovanni's Room"
  • (Hi, I'm CCH Pounder from "The Shield") I starred in a TV movie of "Go Tell It on the Mountain", based on a novel by this African-American author
  • His 1963 bestseller "The Fire Next Time" took its title from an old spiritual
  • Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this fellow African-American author wrote "Notes of a Native Son"

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  • Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
  • James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University (59 minutes, 1965)
  • Kirkus reviews LETTER TO JIMMY by Alain Mabanckou: "a celebration of James Baldwin's literature & legacy" https://t.co/InfBYnkl4n
  • RT @GreatestQuotes: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • RT @journalproject: To be Black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage -- James Baldwin (I post this at least once a…
  • To be Black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage -- James Baldwin (I post this at least once a month) #rage
  • The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ― James Baldwin
  • "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" – James Baldwin #BeTheChange
  • i am curled up reading james baldwin which means i'll probably cry tonight
  • “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” — James Baldwin
  • RT @CharlesMBlow: James Baldwin in the Paris Review, 1984: "I refuse to [be a victim]" #TeamFire
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin
  • James Baldwin in the Paris Review, 1984: "I refuse to [be a victim]" #TeamFire
  • "If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see." — James Baldwin
  • “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” ― James Baldwin
  • RT @urgentwerker: The relevancy of James Baldwin's powerful writings abt America is magical (and sad).. RT @deray Meant To. #Ferguson http:…
  • RT @AQuotesPage: love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
  • RT @ao_BookQuotes: "There are too many things we do not wish to known about ourselves." -James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time"
  • RT @DonMab1: "@Africarevolt:The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses 2 accept the white world’s definitions"…
  • love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin
  • "@AQuotesPage: love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Baldwin"
  • RT @MenOfHistory: "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin
  • "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • #FergusonOctober “Whoever debases others is debasing himself.” ― James Baldwin
  • "@GreatestQuotes: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin"
  • Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ~James Baldwin
  • "One must say yes to life, & embrace it wherever it is found, & it is found in terrible places" James Baldwin The Fire Next Time 1963
  • RT @CoryBooker: "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they never fail to imitate them." James Baldwin #Remem…
  • RT @HumanityQuotes: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin #quotes #quote
  • @ATMahlasela Umzali Wolahleko, all the James Hadley Chase titles, all the Peter Cheyney titles, Marvel and DC Comics, a lot of James Baldwin
  • It's James Baldwin all afternoon at the National Art Gallery.
  • RT @yossiepaul: ...and did not carry a knife." James Baldwin
  • "I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain." - James Baldwin, 'Giovanni's Room'
  • RT @TheySaidSth: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • ...and did not carry a knife." James Baldwin
  • The relevancy of James Baldwin's powerful writings abt America is magical (and sad).. RT @deray Meant To. #Ferguson
  • RT @Scorebusters: "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled." James Baldwin
  • "A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled." James Baldwin
  • "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • "@Africarevolt:The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses 2 accept the white world’s definitions"James Baldwin"
  • #Quotes: "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
  • I need to read more James Baldwin. It's been over 20 yrs since I read Giovanni's Room #BHMLGBT
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~ James Baldwin
  • RT @TheUnNovelist: [The artist] must always know that visible reality hides a deeper one. James Baldwin #amwriting #writing
  • RT @JGrissomNYC: About James Baldwin's "The Devil Finds Work"/From "The Atlantic"/
  • RT @scottkorb: But more, thank goodness for James Baldwin. (From *The Devil Finds Work*) @BeaconPressBks @likaluca @nytimes
  • "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin
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