A review by rocketstails
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

3.0

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have."

When the sun set on Baldwin that very last time, I am so very grateful that it left with us his work; beautifully written and ever compassionate of people - all people, and for the things which he does not fully understand.