Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
"He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr."A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity."—Langston Hughes,The New York Times Book Review“Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time