I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.


Gionvanni's Room (ed. 1967)

James Baldwin Quotes

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done...

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done...

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done...

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done...