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Happy Birthday, brother Jimmy Baldwin. #JamesBaldwin #writers #BLM #resistance #BlackHistory #happybirthday #philosophy #sociology #academia #novel https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
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Happy Birthday, brother Jimmy Baldwin. #JamesBaldwin #writers #BLM #resistance #BlackHistory #happybirthday #philosophy #sociology #academia #novel https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
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james baldwin & the roots of black-palestinian solidarity: https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-and-the-roots-of-black-palestinian-solidarity/
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james baldwin & the roots of black-palestinian solidarity: https://lithub.com/james-baldwin-and-the-roots-of-black-palestinian-solidarity/
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returning to france, he continued writing poetry & fiction - both on his own & through collaborations with margaret mead & richard avadon. amongst his friends & admirers: nina simone, marlon brando, sartre, jean genet, josephine baker, maya angelou...
if you've never read any baldwin, start with 'giovanni's room' - &, if you've never seen him debate, my goodness, wriggle your fine arse over to youtube & watch him at oxford tearing strips off william f buckley.
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returning to france, he continued writing poetry & fiction - both on his own & through collaborations with margaret mead & richard avadon. amongst his friends & admirers: nina simone, marlon brando, sartre, jean genet, josephine baker, maya angelou...
if you've never read any baldwin, start with 'giovanni's room' - &, if you've never seen him debate, my goodness, wriggle your fine arse over to youtube & watch him at oxford tearing strips off william f buckley.
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#art/#history: 'i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.'
james baldwin, born #otd in 1924, was a sage for the ages. his observations on society - from race & class to sex - were too much for harlem to hold...even from one of its native sons.
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#art/#history: 'i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.'
james baldwin, born #otd in 1924, was a sage for the ages. his observations on society - from race & class to sex - were too much for harlem to hold...even from one of its native sons.
#illustration #jamesBaldwin #literature #harlem -
'i stood on a hill in jerusalem today, looking over the border, the arab-israeli border. there is really something frightening about it. there is something insane about it, something which breaks the heart.'
i love james baldwin - today & every day. he is so necessary.
#botd #art #history #literature #palestine #jamesBaldwin
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'i stood on a hill in jerusalem today, looking over the border, the arab-israeli border. there is really something frightening about it. there is something insane about it, something which breaks the heart.'
i love james baldwin - today & every day. he is so necessary.
#botd #art #history #literature #palestine #jamesBaldwin
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It's James Baldwin's birthday. There are so many valuable resources online from Baldwin, including a great many videos of him speaking. Today I'm choosing the audio version of his essay The Fire Next Time. Ta-Nehisi Coates calls it the finest essay he's ever read.
Take care, fellow humans.
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I think about what he said here, as well as his words in The Fire Next Time, a lot.
"Most of mankind is not all of mankind."
It's all true. There are so many good people in this world worth fighting for. ✊️
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I think about what he said here, as well as his words in The Fire Next Time, a lot.
"Most of mankind is not all of mankind."
It's all true. There are so many good people in this world worth fighting for. ✊️
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American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born on this day, 102 years ago.
From 2024:
"Every day, I really work to walk in his company. And in gratitude for the ways he demonstrated how an artist can show up for the world."
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American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was born on this day, 102 years ago.
From 2024:
"Every day, I really work to walk in his company. And in gratitude for the ways he demonstrated how an artist can show up for the world."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rosaluxstiftung/117024384895028452
Il 2 agosto 1924 ad Harlem, New York nasce James Baldwin
Quasi nessun altro scrittore del XX secolo ha scritto in modo così acuto e senza compromessi sul razzismo, il potere e l’identità negli Stati Uniti.
Nell'immagine:
«Le persone si aggrappano con tanta ostinazione al proprio odio, per non dover affrontare il proprio dolore.»Molto interessante e ricco di informazioni tutto il thread
#JamesBaldwin
#Razzismo
#USA
#Queer
#diritti #intersezionalità
#BlackLivesMatter
#scrittori@scuola
@jenshansen
@lindasartini
@alephoto85
@nemobis
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rosaluxstiftung/117024384895028452
Il 2 agosto 1924 ad Harlem, New York nasce James Baldwin
Quasi nessun altro scrittore del XX secolo ha scritto in modo così acuto e senza compromessi sul razzismo, il potere e l’identità negli Stati Uniti.
Nell'immagine:
«Le persone si aggrappano con tanta ostinazione al proprio odio, per non dover affrontare il proprio dolore.»Molto interessante e ricco di informazioni tutto il thread
#JamesBaldwin
#Razzismo
#USA
#Queer
#diritti #intersezionalità
#BlackLivesMatter
#scrittori@scuola
@jenshansen
@lindasartini
@alephoto85
@nemobis
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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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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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Written 3 years before I was born, and not read (or at least remembered) by me until 35 years later, 5-ish years after he died. Yet today it’s a sentence that I want to quote constantly and aligns with, or maybe more honestly, shapes, my entire worldview. At the same time it captures him so perfectly it seems impossible he didn’t quote it to me himself. Maybe he did and I’ve just forgotten. I’d pay so much to be able to talk to him about Baldwin now. I came to Baldwin too late to be able to know his thoughts on that particular quote, or the America that Baldwin shows those who have lived in the skin of the marginalizer not the marginalized.
Both my parents taught me a responsibility to others. But my dad, usually stoic and measured, had a particular empathy for the suffering of children. Children carry an extra innocence, they are even more subject to circumstance, they bear the pain of decisions they haven’t made, consequences they don’t deserve. I almost said he had a weak spot, but it’s not a weakness to care for others. If anything, being able to feel the pain of others is a super power. It’s unfortunate that ability isn’t much more widespread. The world would be a much better place if that ability was so common as to be rendered unremarkable.
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"La lâcheté de notre époque est révélée avec clarté par le mensonge permanent suivant : on attribue tous les désastres qui atteignent la société à une voire une demi-douzaine de créatures cinglées, et on explique qu'elles doivent être emprisonnées ou éliminées. Ainsi, de nos jours, il suffit de traiter une personne ou un groupe de gauchistes, de guérilleros ou de terroristes pour refuser de les considérer comme humains : ils ne sont plus aux yeux de l'opinion que de la vermine à détruire". Extrait de "Meurtres à Atlanta", James Baldwin, 1985.
#JamesBaldwin
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (EPUB)
Author: James Baldwin
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-1841593710/
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Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (EPUB)
Author: James Baldwin
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain-1841593710/
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (EPUB)
Author: James Baldwin
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/tell-me-how-long-the-trains-been-gone-0375701893/
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin (EPUB)
Author: James Baldwin
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/tell-me-how-long-the-trains-been-gone-0375701893/
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The "wait, is Satan good or bad?" reaction makes it difficult to have any Satanist claimings of historical figures, but James Baldwin did actually write that in a semi-autobiographical novel.
Being born Black and queer in the United States was already two strikes against him, but Baldwin was also smart as hell—with the kind of encompassing mind & articulation to match that meant, listening to him or reading him, you could be aware how much smarter he was than you without ever being lost in what he was saying.
Most people will learn about Baldwin on their own b/c it's hard to teach him in school. With Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr., teachers can focus on specific historical acts that are no longer relevant, such as segregation and bus boycotts, or on a few choice lines and misrepresentations. MLK Jr., as he lived, was described in FBI reports as "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation"; but he can be cut down to a cartoon
With Baldwin, there is no anodyne version of him b/c his criticisms of the United States, of American Christianity & white supremacy, of white identity itself, even policing & "riots" are just as cogent & relevant now.
James Baldwin, long after death, remains an exceptionally "dangerous Negro" who is difficult to touch even to slander. His work is exactly the sort of fruit that has to be hidden away and not consumed.
We've already talked elsewhere about Anton LaVey's myopic view of rebellion and transgression. But in general, when LaVey writes about what "The Satanist" is or does, principles he lays out do not compare well to many examples he gives or the choices he made in his own life.
Whatever usefulness Satanism has now is directly related to how we define rebellion & which ghosts of the past we allow to inspire us today.
#JamesBaldwin #GoTellItOnTheMountain #Satanism #DangeousNegro
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The "wait, is Satan good or bad?" reaction makes it difficult to have any Satanist claimings of historical figures, but James Baldwin did actually write that in a semi-autobiographical novel.
Being born Black and queer in the United States was already two strikes against him, but Baldwin was also smart as hell—with the kind of encompassing mind & articulation to match that meant, listening to him or reading him, you could be aware how much smarter he was than you without ever being lost in what he was saying.
Most people will learn about Baldwin on their own b/c it's hard to teach him in school. With Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr., teachers can focus on specific historical acts that are no longer relevant, such as segregation and bus boycotts, or on a few choice lines and misrepresentations. MLK Jr., as he lived, was described in FBI reports as "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation"; but he can be cut down to a cartoon
With Baldwin, there is no anodyne version of him b/c his criticisms of the United States, of American Christianity & white supremacy, of white identity itself, even policing & "riots" are just as cogent & relevant now.
James Baldwin, long after death, remains an exceptionally "dangerous Negro" who is difficult to touch even to slander. His work is exactly the sort of fruit that has to be hidden away and not consumed.
We've already talked elsewhere about Anton LaVey's myopic view of rebellion and transgression. But in general, when LaVey writes about what "The Satanist" is or does, principles he lays out do not compare well to many examples he gives or the choices he made in his own life.
Whatever usefulness Satanism has now is directly related to how we define rebellion & which ghosts of the past we allow to inspire us today.
#JamesBaldwin #GoTellItOnTheMountain #Satanism #DangeousNegro
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"I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope." ~ #JamesBaldwin
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"I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope." ~ #JamesBaldwin
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Reality #Writing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
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You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Reality #Writing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
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James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/10/james-baldwin-nothing-personal-4-am/
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James Baldwin on How to Live Through Your Darkest Hour and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe
http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/10/james-baldwin-nothing-personal-4-am/
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#JamesBaldwin #WilliamBuckley #CambridgeUniversity #1965
I just feel this needs to be shared often and remembered always.
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#JamesBaldwin #WilliamBuckley #CambridgeUniversity #1965
I just feel this needs to be shared often and remembered always.
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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
-- James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Civilization #Evil
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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Then you read
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was reading books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. An artist is a sort of emotional historian.
~ James Baldwinslip:4a1154.
#Books #JamesBaldwin #Quotes #Reading