The Fire Next Time (Modern Library)

The third book is The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin... the way that he just captures the experience of racism just resonates so much for Palestinians.

The next one, just because I reread it and felt it was indispensable and invaluable and has not been surpassed for its clarity of seeing combined with an absolute commitment to affection for our fellow human beings. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.

And third book, James Baldwin, I've gotten into. And tell me how long the train's been gone.

My dad wanted me to read it before he died.

Your book of essays, The Fire Next Time, which was published in 1963, was I think perceived by many whites as an attack against whites like he's threatening us with the fire next time.

It was when I was being called the angry young man on the white side of town and being called Uncle Tom on the black side of town.

the first time I really realized I was alive was reading Baldwin's Fire next time.

the first time I really realized I was alive was reading Baldwin's Fire next time.

Or James Baldwin. I love James Baldwin.

I don't want James Baldwin. I don't want Truman Capote. Give me a fucking break!

He also enjoyed, he read a lot of James Baldwin.

You have the fire next time in 63.

I just think, and one of my favorite books, um, ever is The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, which is a painful, painful analysis of what's going on in America in the 1960s. But then he ends this book with these two pages that are, that he actually got criticized. They called him Pollyannish. That because he ended this book with these profound callings to the, I always say America, we have common pain, but we often lose a sense of common purpose.