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The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin First Edition The Dial Press, New York 1963 First printing, $3.50 price on jacket, White cloth stamped in red, red top stain; VG- book with some staining to spine and near board edges, in a VG+ jacket, unfaded, with a couple short closed tears to spine ends, minor chipping to fore-edge corners, light rubbing This powerful and historically important work of the civil rights movement contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew about the reality he would have to face- "The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you.
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.
" It also contains an essay on his experience with and differences in philosophy with the Nation of Islam where he offers love over retribution as the preferred path to end the racial nightmare in this country.
In it he so eloquently states- "Whoever debases others is debasing himself" [Blockson 2829]
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