March 2011
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A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin
(Delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child – His Self-Image”; originally published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, reprinted in The Price of the Ticket, Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, Saint Martins 1985.)
A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin
Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time. Everyone in this room is in one way or another aware of that. ...
dropsofmystory asked: ummmmmm, where was i on this blog??? YESSSSSSSSS!
brother, keep it up!
brother, keep it up!
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James Baldwin: A Delicacy of Heart
When I moved out from America, I began to see it from a different perspective…
I can see now what happened to so many people who had perished around me and I could see that it was a political fact, a political disaster, and that I, myself, was in any case a political target; and menaced by forces which I had not seen as clearly when I was in America.
I also realized that to try to be a writer...
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“We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or...”
– James Baldwin (via julinkah)
The Fire Next Time p. 90
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'Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone' was the...
what was yours?
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“We don’t know enough about enough about ourselves. I think it’s...”
– James Baldwin [from the voice of Clementine “Tish” Rivers] If Beale Street Could Talk p. 45
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“One of the most terrible, most mysterious things about
a life is that a warning...”
– James Baldwin [from the voice of Clementine “Tish” Rivers] If Beale Street Could Talk p. 135
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“People make you pay for the way you look,
which also the way you think you...”
– James Baldwin [from the voice of Clementine “Tish” Rivers] If Beale Street Could Talk p. 124
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i think every kid in the USA should take a class in the 10th grade on james baldwin jus says
i think every kid in the USA should take a class in the 10th grade on james baldwin jus says
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“…I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be “accepted” by white...”
– James Baldwin
“Letter from a Region of My Mind,” The New Yorker (17 Nov 1962)
Republished as “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind” in The Fire Next Time (1963) pp. 21-22
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WatchJames Baldwin. (12/01/1987). Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved 13 Mar 2011
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Some days (For Paula)
‘Some days (For Paula)’ James Baldwin Jimmy’s Blue’s: Selected Poems (pp. 45-47)
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Some days worry some days glad some days more than make you mad. Some days, some days, more than shine: when you see what’s coming on down the line!
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Some days you say, oh, not me never ⎯ ! Some days you say bless God forever. Some days, you say, curse God, and die and the...
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Fifth Avenue, Uptown →
By James Baldwin
In July 1960, the literary conscience of the Civil Rights generation turned his eyes toward Harlem. The end result is a gripping portrait of a neighborhood on the brink.
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