ABOUT JAMES BALDWIN
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western society, most notably in regard to the mid-twentieth-century United States. Wikipedia
Born: August 2, 1924, Harlem, New York, NY
Died: December 1, 1987, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Movies: I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Where the Heart Is, Go Tell it on the Mountain
Short stories: Sonny's Blues, The Rockpile, Little Man Little Man
SOURCE: Wikipedia
QUOTES BY JAMES BALDWIN
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
WHAT I WISH FOR YOU TODAY
Good God, based on the quotes by Baldwin, where to begin?
How about we begin with these:
1. FACE A FEAR;
2. RELEASE HATE, FEEL THE PAIN; and
3. BE AN EXCEPTIONAL ROLE MODEL FOR CHILDREN.
That’s a damn good day of good, solid work!