Audio Book: James Baldwin, Artist On Fire
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the acclaimed biography of America's most notable black writer. James Baldwin. Artist on Fire. A Portrait by W. J. Weatherby. Chapter one Blues for Mr Baldwin James Baldwin had a mystical view of his own life. He sometimes talked about the course that his life had taken is if he believed in fate in Destiny. He was a man who would wear an ancient Turkish silver ring because he had been told that it would could ward off evil. And he wants the center friend a little stone from India Scotch taped to a letter because he had been assured it had magical powers. He wrapped on wood for good luck all his life And what is intelligence pointed one way in his instincts. Another. He invariably followed his instincts. His outlook was probably the result of his early religious upbringing, probably the effect of his extraordinary rise from extreme poverty in Harlem to international celebrity. After all he had been through it must have seemed almost like a fairy tale come true. But he often wondered whether there would be a happy ending. I suspect, though I certainly cannot prove it, he wrote 10 years before he died that every life lose full circle toward revelation