James Baldwin defined “freedom” as “the fire which burns away illusion.”
Baldwin also insisted that “any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are” from this standard.
In a letter to his nephew named for him, James Baldwin warned the younger James how all of this would play out in his life: James Baldwin defined “integration” differently for his nephew. As Baldwin defined it, “integration” means “that we with love shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.” For Baldwin, there was no alternative. Any society that refuses to look upon itself honestly, and, therefore, bravely, is a society “about to perish.”
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