James A. Baldwin Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
Birthday: August 2
Death: December 1
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.
source: Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated
topic: Girl, Maturity, Boys, Boy And Girl, Harlem
