James Baldwin
James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwinwas an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1924
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
James Baldwin quotes about
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.