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ex_libris_volantes's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Wow. Just wow. We really gotta learn our history because technology has progressed, be we are all in all the same lost and scared ‘children’ just as Baldwin describes us herein.
eralbesu's review
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Aside from giving us a reflective glimpse in the psyche of a well-traveled, conscientious, thoughtful Black American man in his time, this essay says something quite beautiful in the last few passages about humans and our desire to love and be loved and how that love changes us. Reading through this essay, that was perhaps the last place I expected us to land, but now looking back on the essay, it seems so obvious that’s where we were going lol.
erraticeldandil's review against another edition
5.0
For such a short book, this... well I'm not sure how to call it...I'd say novella if it was fiction....packs quite a punch. I continue to love Baldwin's voice and found plenty of insights I will keep thinking of -> though I will say I think I need a physical read to really digest what is said.
I think the idea that sticks out most in my mind is the passage about the moments in which your carefully crafted "self" seems to fall entirely apart and you are stuck trying to put the pieces back together again. It's a feeling I know well and it is beautifully described.
I think the idea that sticks out most in my mind is the passage about the moments in which your carefully crafted "self" seems to fall entirely apart and you are stuck trying to put the pieces back together again. It's a feeling I know well and it is beautifully described.