"Life never bribed him to look at anything but the soul, Henry James said of Emerson, and one could say the same of James Baldwin, with a similar suggestion that the price for his purity was blindness about some other things in life. Baldwin possessed to an extraordinary degree what James called Emerson’s “special capacity for moral experience.”"
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Jimmy Baldwin: Stirring the Waters by Darryl Pinckney | The New York Review of Books
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