Help me locate this quote?
March 24, 2004 5:59 PM Subscribe
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. - James Baldwin
Where is this quote from? Thanks in advance!
Where is this quote from? Thanks in advance!
"Many Thousands Gonne" in Notes of a Native Son.
I don't have a single clue about this whole thing, but a simple google query ("james baldwin"+"because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of") pointed me to this page (cached , so that the words you are looking for are highlighted) which says what I wrote in the first sentence.
-- On preview, someone already beat me to it.
posted by kchristidis at 6:10 PM on March 24, 2004
I don't have a single clue about this whole thing, but a simple google query ("james baldwin"+"because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of") pointed me to this page (cached , so that the words you are looking for are highlighted) which says what I wrote in the first sentence.
-- On preview, someone already beat me to it.
posted by kchristidis at 6:10 PM on March 24, 2004
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I put it into google and it was the first link that appeared. No offense, but what the hell was that?
posted by The God Complex at 6:08 PM on March 24, 2004