James Baldwin – How to Cool it, Esquire interview (1968)

February 27, 2022

ESQ: How can we get the black people to cool it?

JAMES BALDWIN: It is not for us to cool it.

ESQ: But aren’t you the ones who are getting hurt the most?

JAMES BALDWIN: No, we are only the ones who are dying fastest.

Full interview, click link below:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23960/james-baldwin-cool-it/

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