James Baldwin is a Black man with short hair. He wears a dark suit jacket with a black grid pattern, white dress shirt and dark tie. People are visible behind him in this black and white photograph.

An illustration of James Baldwin's head - a Black man with short hair. An outline of his body contains the words, "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James Baldwin

James Baldwin is a Black man with short hair. He is smiling. He wears a light jacket, white dress shirt and striped tie in this black and white photograph.

Honoring the great James Baldwin on his birthday

A writer, orator and civil rights activist whose wisdom and powerful words continue to inspire us

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Wisdom from the archive.

📷: James Baldwin, back cover “Notes of a Native Son,” from the John D. Carter Library for Consciousness & Change at ATNSC

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James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son

Cannot recommend enough. One of the most beautiful writers I've ever read.

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“One writes out of one thing only—one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”

― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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