Right, Jack.

And with all due respect to James Baldwin (assuming that he actually said that), Right Wing and Left Wing have nothing to do with birds.

In the States General in France in the late eighteenth century, leading up to the French Revolution. From Wikipedia:

" The terms "Left" and "Right" appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president's right and supporters of the revolution to his left.

One deputy, the Baron de Gauville explained, "We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to the king and the aristocracy took up positions to the right of the chairman, leaving the seats to the left to the deputies representing the common people and the peasantry."

The modern press use the terms "left" and "right" to refer to the opposing sides, Liberal and Conservative."

Nothing to do with birds.

Don Firth