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James Baldwin Poems - Poems about James Baldwin

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Premium Member Unassailable Purity
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Why We Remember
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
America
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, abuse, anti bullying, books,
Form: Blank verse
Address Me By My Name
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, black african american, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxiv
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, education, graduation, prison, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Not Your *****
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, community, health, history, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Tell the Stories
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: james baldwin, bird, peace, song, sun,
Form: Didactic

Book: Shattered Sighs