To celebrate the centenary of the writer, poet and civil rights activist, read his stirring essay 'My Dungeon Shook,' written as a letter to his young nephew, in which he encapsulates the ironies of race relations in America.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.Writer, poet and activist James Baldwin was one of the leading literary voices of the civil rights movement. Through a powerful oeuvre of novels, plays and essays, he explored issues of race, class, politics and sexual identity during one of America's most turbulent periods.
We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived. And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children. This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country.
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