~ 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 now 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.
In this video, at the dedication by Village Preservation Society, his nephew Trevor Baldwin speaks.
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.
In this video, at the dedication by Village Preservation Society, his nephew Trevor Baldwin speaks.