Writer and social critic James Baldwin is known for addressing the intricacies of African Americans, White America and gay men through his writing. He has become a staple in contemporary literature.

Quotes pulled from interviews, speeches, letters, and novels by James Baldwin. 1. “Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the ...

Multiple Redditors also shared the quotation to various quote-themed subreddits. One such post, published in March 2021, had amassed more than 2,300 upvotes as of this writing. The quote was correctly ...

James Baldwin said, “We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, ...

On April 30, 2024, a post on X (archived) purported to cite U.S. author James Baldwin writing about outside parties leading Black Americans to protest. The quote read: When the South has trouble with ...

To mark the end of Black History Month, we're revisiting two conversations about James Baldwin that first aired last summer for his 100th birthday. First, NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with McKinley ...

In 1965, in the packed Cambridge Union Society in London, James Baldwin, a voice of the civil rights movement, debated the commentator William F. Buckley, who was skeptical of the cause. The motion: ...

In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions.

The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the ...

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