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James Baldwin© Jannelly 2021
In an excerpt from The Queer Bible, the celebrated novelist behind Rainbow Milk extols a fellow writer: James Baldwin
June 09, 2021
The thing that strikes me most about Baldwin – now that I have access to every clip of his speeches and interviews, now that I’ve read all but one of his novels, now that I’ve been floored by my own reflection in his essays – is his courage, and his confidence in his own mind. He did not go to college. He knew he was brilliant and worth saving by something other than God; he left New York lest it killed him, and fled to Paris, then to Istanbul, then to the south of France, periodically returning to the US – even while being hounded by the FBI’s COINTELPRO ( Counterintelligence Program) project (run by J Edgar Hoover, a closeted homosexual) – to tell it about itself in no uncertain terms, influencing the Black Power movement, marching side by side with Civil Rights campaigns, writing essays like ‘Letter fro
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