Literature · Reflection
JAMES BALDWIN ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE
14 May 2019
What does the American writer James Baldwin think about reading?…
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
~ James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Who was James Baldwin?
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, playwright, and activist. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. (source wikipedia)
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