How James Baldwin Read His Way Out of Harlem

You’re playing the game according to somebody else’s rules, and you can’t win until you understand the rules and step out of that particular game, which is not, after all, worth playing.

James Baldwin, in conversation with Margaret Mead, on [how he read his way out of Harlem and into literary greatness][1].

[1]: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/10/a-rap-on-race-james-baldwin-reading/