The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross (Penguin Modern Classics)
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The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross (Penguin Modern Classics)
Wash me, cried the slave to his Maker, and I shall be whiter, whiter than snow! For black is the color of evil; only the robes of the saved are white. It is this cry, implacable on the air and in the skull, that he must live with.
James Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
I thought of white men arriving for the first time in an African village, strangers there, as I am a stranger here, and tried to imagine the astounded populace touching their hair and marveling at the color of their skin. But there is a great difference between being the first white man to be seen by Africans and being the first black man to be see
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The Creative Process
The text explores the artist's role in society, emphasizing the necessity of confronting aloneness, truth, and societal changes to create a more humane world while reflecting on the complexities of identity and history.
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