James Baldwin’s Death – Cause and Date

The novelist James Baldwin died at the age of 63. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Influential 20th-century author whose works explore themes of race, class, and sexual orientation. His most famous novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953.

He was raised by his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, and his stepfather, David Baldwin. In 1948, he fled to Paris to come to terms with his homosexual orientation and to escape American prejudice against gays and African-Americans.

Quotes

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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” (James Baldwin)

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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” (James Baldwin)

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“An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.” (James Baldwin)

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“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” (James Baldwin)

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.” (James Baldwin)