Best James Baldwin Poems

...I am black, I am not a curse
I would appreciate if you could stop
Addressing me as the world's worse
I am a human 
So there isn't any need for you to treat me inhumane
Like you, I am a person wh......

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...Zora Neal saw that Their Eyes Were Watching God, when
Toni Morrison heard The Song of Solomon, and
James Baldwin Told It on the Mountain, while
W.E.B. DuBois embraced The Souls of Black Folks
Ric......

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...Last night I was mesmerized
by James Baldwin
in a documentary
"I Am Not Your *****"
in which Baldwin reflects on
Medger, Malcolm, and Martin
who were shot in that order
within six years of eac......

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...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV

IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre d'Etat 
        Ple......

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...America

I used to love America we never said the USA
as a young seaman, it was the place to buy T. shirts, jeans
and white I never forget the name, Arrow shirts
the people full of optimism ever......

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...Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.  ~Author James Baldwin

Humans drown themselves in ego by thinking they'r......

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...Today is a day we must always commemorate…a day we remember the Holocaust…a tragic time in world history when 6 million Jewish lives were lost.

We think of the horrors they endured…if we listen we......

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...Written By:  D. Collins 7/7/25


I know the names of some of the greatest to ever dawn black skin.
Dr. Charles Drew, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin.
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