#jamesbaldwin — Public Fediverse posts
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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
A #century of #JamesBaldwin’s #prophetic #voice.
This #essay uses an #offensive #racial #epithet in #citing #JamesBaldwin’s #work. I choose to use it to underscore the important #insight that Baldwin meant to convey by using this #inflammatory #term.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture #RoleModels #BlackMastodon
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/09/23/james-baldwin-centenary-massingale-248835
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#7books that made a difference to me in no particular order. Judge me, because who doesn’t?
“The Parade's Gone By . . . “ by #KevinBrownlow
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by #DanaStevens
Tales of the City by #ArmisteadMaupin
The Cider House Rules by #JohnIrving
Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited... by #MollyHaskell
The Fire Next Time by #JamesBaldwin
Shatterday by #HarlanEllison
