James Baldwin
American writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
—James Baldwin, American writer, Notes of a Native Son, 1955
Posted on November 7, 2000 at 8:40 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
—James Baldwin, American writer, The Crusade of Indignation
Posted on May 6, 2002 at 10:42 AM
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