- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Distant Star Called Possibility
- Wintergreen and Alaga Syrup
- From “Shaping the World of My Art”
- Outside of Dreams
- The Case of the Reluctant Reader
- Parting the Blue Miasma
- New Kid on the Block
- Obstacles or Opportunities
- The Faith Walk of Writing
- On My Return from Exile
- Of History and Healing
- The Conscientious Outsider
- The Mother’s Board
- My Father’s Passage
- A Blessed Life
- A Birth and a Death, or Everything Important Happens on Monday
- Ambrosia
- Cotton Pickin’ Authority
- The First Time I Saw Big Daddy Grinning
- On Gardening, or A Love Supreme
- A Very Good Year
- Bury the Thought
- The Death of the Mother
- A Remembrance
- The Night I Stopped Singing like Billie Holiday
- Afterword: Rites, Rituals, and Creative Ceremonies
- Poetry Reading
- Contributors
A Remembrance
A Remembrance
- Chapter:
- (p.212) A Remembrance
- Source:
- Shaping Memories
- Author(s):
Sonia Sanchez
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter focuses on the death of James Baldwin, which made a big impact on Sonia Sanchez’s life. When Sanchez first read James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, she knew she was home. Seeing Baldwin on TV, she immediately felt a kinship with this man whose anger and disappointment with America’s contradictions transformed his face into a warrior’s face, whose tongue transformed massacres into triumphs. When Sanchez first met him in the late 1960s, she was stricken by his smile smiling out at the New York City audience he had just attacked. Sanchez, however, focuses on the next to the last time they spoke in Atlanta, when Atlanta was just coming out from under serial murders. At the time, Atlanta looked on Baldwin as an outsider attempting to stir up things better left unsaid.
Keywords: outsider, serial murders, James Baldwin, Sonia Sanchez, America’s contradictions, Atlanta
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Distant Star Called Possibility
- Wintergreen and Alaga Syrup
- From “Shaping the World of My Art”
- Outside of Dreams
- The Case of the Reluctant Reader
- Parting the Blue Miasma
- New Kid on the Block
- Obstacles or Opportunities
- The Faith Walk of Writing
- On My Return from Exile
- Of History and Healing
- The Conscientious Outsider
- The Mother’s Board
- My Father’s Passage
- A Blessed Life
- A Birth and a Death, or Everything Important Happens on Monday
- Ambrosia
- Cotton Pickin’ Authority
- The First Time I Saw Big Daddy Grinning
- On Gardening, or A Love Supreme
- A Very Good Year
- Bury the Thought
- The Death of the Mother
- A Remembrance
- The Night I Stopped Singing like Billie Holiday
- Afterword: Rites, Rituals, and Creative Ceremonies
- Poetry Reading
- Contributors
