JAMES BALDWIN ‘AMES BALDWIN as torn in 126 Haven, «native sn ofthe Aeris ick gto. He as aly bor rer, or sme sandy ca Be. ga Pasting tls tat the ine ltr rn,” hewn irs pres na ph care the age of ele or eos, when eso soy | Id wren about the Spanish wealuton a somes of pra an exer ‘Shorted carne ember ly censor by he dyer, though [don Fete ty, and soup “hse of floc suport Balin whe he was young ~ a Sexton who ens oiy teeta in 1, Rosen 148, «Cage 135, Partisan Review flisip 1956, andsuppr from the Ford Fount 1958 Hira oo! ste albigrapial Go Tel onthe Mountain (859, {ale by the ny colton Notes of Native Son 1959. "Man motels hae lowed, nd ry esas. The Fire Newt Tie (1969) ¢ cuca dame! the traggle for oa gh thal oop he tf the Vena War ok cent age. Along tion has bon hs chi ling, eum Fis a Jame Balin ino oft. "One is out of on tg nly — one's lu expec," he sy "Everything dpe on how eee one oes from 168 Notes of ie Son thingie hast dep ser iter om poly ge. Tic the nly eal crf thar forrest order which a.” Tals tito hist ero Ricard Wrights nae Native Son 10, oh lhe try of ck man ald Ces het wh ts owen Tones his cue, Writing det au of is epee, Balin se the per wea ay cam rl pro, to moe bond alorapy award sia ‘alsa urgent mara og. Notes of a Native Son (on the 2th of July, in 196, my father ded. On the same day, 9 few hows afer, Rifat eh es bor, Over month before his, whl ll ur Rares wate comecrtted in wang for tbese events, there ha been, ‘Dette one of the Bloods ace tof the century A fee hours alter my {her's fame while he ay i stat nthe underake's chapel, re Hot ‘sks outin Ham. On the morning of he Sd of Angus, we drove my fr therto the graveyard through a wldeeness of mashed pte ls “Fhe day of my father’s aneral ha ls boen may rnetenthbsthay. swe ove him to the graveyard he spoof injustice, anarchy, dcontent, hd teed were all round us, seemed € me that God himeelf had de ‘aed to ark my father's end the tost mistaned and brutally dissonant Wleodan_Andit seemed tome, oo, thatthe lence which ros al about Sy tther lef the world had ben devised as corrective forthe pie of, isla sone Thad decid! to bee in hat apecalype which ad been nivel to my father vison very wel fe seemed to be soying. eve i ‘Sincthing that wl ceainly poe for an spocsiyse uni the eal thing ter long, Thad inline fo be contemptuous of my father for he cond on of hn if, forthe conations our Hives, When hisife had ended Tbe fone wondessbout that fe and also, it anew way, to be apprehensive Shout my own ‘had not known ny father very wel, We had got on badly, pry bee 3 coune we share, in our Afferent atone, the vic of tbhor pride When {Rees den {eliza [ha arly ever spoke to him, When be Rad bcm dad song toe Tega to wih Bade scems to be typ of le in [Rane where opportunity, ral and fancied are thicker than anywhere ‘Sten the ibe, thatthe second generation has no ime to alto the it. ‘Novne,incdng my father, seme have known exact how ode was, Peuth mother ben bon daring slavery. Hew lth ft generation freemen. He, slong with thousands of ther Negros, ome Nov ate 1918 and an par ofthat generation wn ac never een thence of ‘what Negroes sometimes clthe OM County He haben born n Neve Oana sd haben quite young man thee cringe te tht Lov Atsrong, sto, mes running end fo the ver and honlytrk af wha was says peseted Wo eas one of the fost wkd of ies otha cay, whenever hak of New Ora also Telpely think of Sodom and Goma, My father ever mentioned Lola ‘Armrtong except forbid to lay record at here was pte of ‘mon cur war stong tine One ay athe atong-vle ane re aves bad laced there ad forbade ny tte o ae down, He never “id bur he evently maneuvered her to he howe ad he, come earner she wab a wou and ear det, beefed to syn 0 Irlpher He was 1 hick, very handsome gather th fom photgaphs ae from my own memes him rete in his Suny best cn ons way to preach a seimon somewhere when I waite Hanne, proud and ingrown “es tena” smchody snd. Bat he hed tose, ew clerk pletres ha steno Alcan tbl cing he ely Should have been naked, with warpsit on and baibeic mementos, fanding tmong sess. He could be cling in th pulp and indseably crue ‘is pesca dea he was erly the most biter man Ihave ever met et t mast be sa hat there wos someting ein hm, bared nin ‘nhc eh hs tremendous power and ves athe using hasan ha oo with i ncknes (Nk — a war ery ck with tinned hs bec, and wih tf a Laer Be se ack bt no now tat he was ef He cand be proud of hs ¥scknes but it ha als ben he cus of much union end hd ed beak boundries his We. He was nota young man when We wee EEO Ingup and be had aeody sre many Lands ay in cuapeouly demanding ad potecve way beloved his chien who were ack ke Nm and menace, Ike Hin anda these tinge sometimes shoved ies {ace when bet, neve fo my hnowedge wih any suc, eaioh contact with ny ofa When he tok one fh cen on hie ply, {thechdabwaysbecme fel and began oy, when he edo hlp one ‘of with oor homework te abaya onion whith emanated {rom him ted our mins an or tongues to Bosom prayed that 1, searalyhrowing why, ew nto age andthe ul ot ong why, vos punlaed. I ever ntred Ns head wo bring a surpse home fr hs hen, twas, os untdingy, the wrong surprises even thei termeons he often troxght home ons Back the summer led ft trom appalling sens {not remem, nal hse en, Hat oe 6 Neto Nat Sn shen vas ever glad to see him come home. fiom what I was able 0 tater of his ery, seemed hat thie inal to establish contact with ‘ter people had slays marke him and had Bae one of the thing Which hd riven him out of New Oveans. There was something in him, thrcore opng and tentative, which was never expesied snd which was bared ‘with him. One sae ie most deal when he was acing new people end hop gto impres them. But he reve id not for long. We weat om chars 0 smaller and more improbable church, he fund Nise inet an ess de ‘mand asa minster, and by the me he died none o his ends had come 1 see him fr along tine. He had lve and di nan inflraie tenes “pst andi rightened ne, as we drove ht fo the graveyard tough Tose “unguie uine sues, to see how powerful and overowing this terns ‘could be and to realize that tis biteress now wa ine ‘When he died had been away fom one for iti over a eat. ln that year Thad had ine to become aware ofthe meaning of ll ny fate’ biter wamings, hed discovered the seret of his proudly pureed ips and rig