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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
5.0
“You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a nigger.”
In the Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation (My Dungeon Shook,) Baldwin explains to his nephew how difficult it is to be black in America—also touching on the civil rights movement and race relations during that time. His advice is moving and beautiful although the topic is so heartbreaking.
“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. But this is a distinction so extremely hard to make that the West has not been able to make it yet. And at the centre of this dreadful storm, this vast confusion, stand the black people of this nation, who must now share the fate of a nation that has never accepted them, to which they were brought in chains.”
Letter from a Region in My Mind (Down at the Cross) is one of the best essays I’ve ever read. Baldwin flexes the pen, unlike any author I’ve had the privilege of reading. Baldwin examines America’s racism by taking us through his journey with religion, specifically, the Christian church and Islam. I don’t have much to say about this essay. I find myself speechless! What I can say is, this book is a must-read. I’ll be thinking about it for quite some time.
In the Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation (My Dungeon Shook,) Baldwin explains to his nephew how difficult it is to be black in America—also touching on the civil rights movement and race relations during that time. His advice is moving and beautiful although the topic is so heartbreaking.
“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. But this is a distinction so extremely hard to make that the West has not been able to make it yet. And at the centre of this dreadful storm, this vast confusion, stand the black people of this nation, who must now share the fate of a nation that has never accepted them, to which they were brought in chains.”
Letter from a Region in My Mind (Down at the Cross) is one of the best essays I’ve ever read. Baldwin flexes the pen, unlike any author I’ve had the privilege of reading. Baldwin examines America’s racism by taking us through his journey with religion, specifically, the Christian church and Islam. I don’t have much to say about this essay. I find myself speechless! What I can say is, this book is a must-read. I’ll be thinking about it for quite some time.