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• I Am Not Your Negro

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  "The root of the white man's hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind.”

• James Baldwin

  The FBI File

  Maxwell, William J.

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  The FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.

• The Fire Next Time

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  “Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go Tell It on the Mountain

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  “It was he who, unforgivably, taught her that there are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”

• Giovanni's Room

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  “Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nobody Knows My Name

  Baldwin, James

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  “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically speaking, one's feet have simply been placed on the treadmill forever.”

• Notes of a Native Son

  Baldwin, James

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  “I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Another Country

  Baldwin, James

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  “I'm beginning to think,' she said, 'that growing means learning more and more about anguish. That poison becomes your diet-- you drink a little of it everyday. Once you've seen it, you can't stop seeing it-- that's the trouble. And it can, it can'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Going to Meet the Man

  Baldwin, James

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  “All the white people she has ever met needed, in one way or another, to be reassured, consoled, to have their consciences pricked but not blasted; could not, could not afford to hear a truth which would shatter, irrevocably, their image of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

  Baldwin, James

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  “Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If Beale Street Could Talk

  a Novel

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  “But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends. I ain’t going to tell you no lies, like it always ends for the better. Sometimes it ends for the worse. You can suffer so bad that you can be driven to a place where you can’t ever…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Not Your Negro

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  “It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it.”