The Fire Next Time

this book is divided into two parts/essays. the first one is Baldwin's letter to his nephew where he expresses the contemporary situation of US racial politics in an easy, raw and personal manner. The second essay was more complicated and heavier than the first where he talked about his rise and fall from being a religious Christian and how religious institutions preach hate psychology to manipulate the wounded souls which also complimented his visit to Elijah Muhammad where he once again got close association with the hypocrisy and double-faced reality of the supposed unifying organisation. I was also glad to see that even though Baldwin lived in an age when many renowned personalities were sexist, he recognised the error and considered the inequality unjustifiable.

Protect your women: a difficult thing to do in a civilization sexually so pathetic that the white man's masculinity depends on a denial of the masculinity of the blacks. Protect your women: in a civilization that emasculates the male and abuses the female, and in which, moreover, the male is forced to depend on the female's bread-winning power.