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January 2013
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auntada asked: Take your time. James Baldwin wouldn't have rushed good work.
digestifordinaire asked: dude why did you stop, keep going!
December 2012
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25th Anniversary Year of James Baldwin's...
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Today (December 1, 2012) is the 25th Anniversary Year of the physical transition of James Baldwin who (if you don’t know) was a radical Black Gay Human Rights Activist & Literary Giant.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin (August 4, 1924 - December 1, 1987)
November 2012
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grey[dot]matters.: In my experience—and this is a... →
In my experience—and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don’t really know what the word experience means—the strangest people in one’s life are the people one has known and loved, still know and will always love. Here, both I and the vocabulary are in trouble, for strangest does not imply stranger. A stranger is a stranger is a stranger, simply, and you watch the stranger to...
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September 2012
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August 2012
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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become...”
– Baldwin’s speech, ” A Talk to Teachers” http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm (via jonubian)
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May 2012
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INTERVIEW: JAMES BALDWIN Looking Towards the... →
James Baldwin, like an Old Testament prophet whose insistent voice refuses to fall silent, has been one of this country’s most persistent witnesses. He is a witness in that he testifies to everything he thinks and feels as we move through the minefields of love/hate, Black/white, rich/poor relationships in twentieth century America.
His complex prose style has often been favorably compared to...
April 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Davis. →
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“There is a sense of the grotesque about a person who has spent his or her life...”
– Baldwin, James, and Randall Kenan. “The Uses of the Blues.” The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings. New York: Vintage, 2011. 57-66. Print. (via stetx)
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Mentors: Matthew Specktor on James Baldwin
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MATTHEW SPECKTOR James Baldwin cc Allan Warren 1969
He missed the first class. In fact, he missed the first three. In his place came an emissary, a small, solemn fellow who cocked his head and closed his eyes and explained how Mr. Baldwin has been detained in Paris. I was nineteen, and had only a cursory understanding of who “Mr. Baldwin” really was. I’d read Giovanni’s...
December 2011
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“The Day I Finally Met Baldwin
The 1960s opened propitiously for me, and for my...”
– Chinua Achebe - The Day I Finally Met James Baldwin
It always interests me to hear other writer’s encounters with James because I do believe he was a prophet.
(via curlyingenue)
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Events in 2011 and forthcoming book strengthen... →
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November 2011
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“The hardest thing about writing, in a sense, is not writing. I mean, the...”
– James Baldwin
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“On the other hand, people who imagine history flatters them (as it does, indeed,...”
– James Baldwin, “White Man’s Guilt” (via notime4yourshit)
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James Arthur Baldwin Inducted to the American... →
We’re proud to announce that our 2011 inductee into the American Poets’ Corner is native New Yorker and fearless writer James Baldwin. A Native New Yorker from Harlem, James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) was shaped by the Jim Crow era, the black church, and by Greenwich Village, where he moved when he was 17. He escaped a strict, religious stepfather who had shepherded him into a career...
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The Jimmy Baldwin Project A call for the... →
October 2011
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August 2011
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James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick
Date: May 27, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 1, Column 1; Book Review Desk Byline: By Julius Lester
The hair is almost white now, but that is the only indication that James Baldwin will be 60 years old in August. Thirty-one years have passed since the publication of his first book, the novel ”Go Tell It on the Mountain,” and 21 years since ”The...
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James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; We Carry Him...
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 3; Book Review Desk Byline: By Amiri Baraka
First of all, Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure, he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
As man, he came to us from the family, the human lives, names we can call David, Gloria, Lover,...
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James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His...
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 27, Column 1; Book Review Desk Byline: By Toni Morrison
Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and invites contemplation instead. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself...
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July 2011
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Waiting for Giovanni: Life of Author James Baldwin... →
The complex mind of influential author and civil rights activist James Baldwin (Go Tell It On the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son) comes to life on stage in this new drama, examining the personal and professional conflicts battling it out in the Harlem-born Baldwin (WM. Hunter) as he works on the explicit novel Giovanni’s Room. Released in 1956, the book became known for its complex and...
