James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug. 2 this year.
Baldwin never went to college, but he read, by his own count, every book in the library.
Hollywood made it into a documentary instead and then never released it, leaving Baldwin to publish it himself in book form, as “One Day When I Was Lost.”Few people are as eloquent with the pen as Baldwin was.
In the documentary short “Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris,” he says: “Love has never been a popular movement and no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free.
The world is held together — really it is held together — by the love and the passion of a very few people.”
Persons:
James Baldwin, Baldwin, Malcolm X, Hollywood, ”
Locations:
Harlem, United States, France, America, Paris