Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement is a 1985 non-fiction book by James Farmer, published by Arbor House in 1985.
A subsequent edition is published by Texas Christian University Press.
[3] "God and Goddamn," the twelfth chapter, describes how Farmer navigated social life in Washington, DC.
[4] Reviewer Beth Brown wrote that the work is "highly emotional, yet coolly accurate and objective".
[1] David Levering Lewis of Rutgers University wrote that the book is "strikingly human", and that it has "an appearance of honesty" and "extraordinary eloquence and emotional power.