- About James Baldwin -
“All men are brothers. That's the bottom
line. If you can't take it from there,
you can't take it at all.”
- Baldwin comment during an NBC/TV interview -
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented
in the history of the world. But then you read. It was books that taught me..."- ~ from the film, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
- “There is not another writer who expresses with such poignancy and abrasiveness the dark realities of our racial ferment.”
- ~ TIME Magazine Cover Article. May 17, 1963
- James Baldwin and composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein
were each awarded the Légion d’Honneur, France's
highest honor, by French President Mitterrand at the
Elysée Palace in Paris, France. June 19, 1986. - ~ AP photo/Laurent Rebours
- James Baldwin Stamp, 2004
United States Postal Service - “I really do believe that we can all become better than we are.
I know we can. But the price is enormous, and people are
not yet willing to pay it.” - ~ from the film, James Baldwin: The Price of Ticket
- Baldwin is recognized all over the world ... And remembered especially
in places where he lived and worked, from Harlem to Paris to Istanbul ...
And at 81 Horatio Street in lower Manhattan, from 1958-1961 ...
where a plaque marks his erstwhile apartment. - Video: Landmark dedication by the Village Preservation Society,
Baldwin's nephew Trevor Baldwin speaks.
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