Book Review: I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

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Book Review: I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

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ReviewBaldwin’s words and interview responses/debates echo till this day. It is both comforting and disheartening. I am grateful for Raoul Peck to have come about Baldwin’s notes on this unpublished novel. This book (and movie) is a haunting reality and it is frustrating that even if times have “changed,” mentality surrounding race and equality hasn’t progressed much. The same patterns of ignorance, fear, and bigotry persist…

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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