James Baldwin quotes about grief
27 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as James Baldwin wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 316 in the full collection. Page 2 of 2.
On the morning of the 3rd of August, we drove my father to the graveyard through a wilderness of smashed plate glass.
It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father’s end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- Giovanni's Room quotes · 76 lines (1956)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain quotes · 59 lines (1953)
- If Beale Street Could Talk quotes · 41 lines (1974)
- Notes of a Native Son quotes · 76 lines (1955)
- The Fire Next Time quotes · 46 lines (1963)
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