"Our passion for categorization, life neatly fitted into pegs, has led to an unforeseen, paradoxical distress; confusion, a breakdown of meaning. Those categories which were meant to define and control the world for us have boomeranged us into chaos; in which limbo we whirl, clutching the straws of our definitions."

-James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (PBS Documentary)

A truly beautiful revolutionary spirit, James Baldwin has been a powerful inspiration to me and many others.  Here is a recent PBS documentary about his life and work.