{"product_id":"great-writers-the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin","title":"Great Writers: \"the Fire Next Time\" James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003eShopify: Great Writers “The Fire Next Time,” James Baldwin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fire Next Time, James Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 1963; 128 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDialectic Journal\/Lesson Plans: 56 pages, 11,171 words, visuals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/files\/James_Baldwin_480x480.jpg?v=1644862442\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy Dungeon Shook, Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePowerful Book about an important man, Baldwin, and the men who tried to influence his thinking, and why Baldwin chose to follow his own path. A biography that surfaces one of the modern, complicated Americans.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn grandfather: “he was defeated long before he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about him.” (4)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn his countrymen: “that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.” (5)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn “most of mankind”: (But remember most of mankind is not all of mankind.” (5)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It is the innocence that constitutes the crime. (6)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.” (7)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWherever, you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do (and how you can do it) and where you can live and whom you could marry. (8)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. (8)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWell, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. (9)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. (10)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42511910240472,"sku":"3.0","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/8862\/2040\/products\/TheFirenexttime.jpg?v=1644862786","url":"https:\/\/mr-brovsky.myshopify.com\/products\/great-writers-the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin","provider":"Mr. Brovsky's Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}