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Representation is important!!! You have no idea what life experiences the people you meet have and what lessons theyll learn from things they see you do #JamesBaldwin #MargaretMead #ARapOnRace #pillastorytime

Heres a wild story about James Baldwin trying to cash a check in the south. Very interesting stuff about needing to give someone an 'out' to save face in the south, a concept that definitely does not exist in new york city #JamesBaldwin #ARapOnRace #pillastorytime

Its dead af at the bar tonight so im working my way through #ARapOnRace. Big thoughts from Baldwin about the fractionation of american society and how it contributes to marginalization of every minority group #JamesBaldwin #MargaretMead #pillastorytime

The use of #JamesBaldwin during this episode was magical! Working on #Genreless, as my DM prep is on hiatus.

Hoje acabei a #leitura do livro "O quarto de Giovanni". Ainda estou em choque pelo quanto me marcou.
Acho que foi o primeiro livro que li em que a homossexualidade é o pano de fundo do enredo, e isso já estava à espera. O que não estava à espera é que fosse dos melhores romances sobre amor e paixão que li.
E pensar na época em que foi escrito, dá-me mais razões para pensar que é um grande romance.

#OQuartoDeGiovanni #JamesBaldwin

James Baldwin said it best. #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #JamesBaldwin

“The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.”

#JamesBaldwin (1924 – 1987); from #TerrenceDixon 1970 documentary “Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris”

#PhumzileVanDamme

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https://youtu.be/PjGzpVTrOEw

#JamesBaldwin #SanJose #RecycleBookstore #Bookstore #UsedBookstore #Bookstodon

“You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.” — #JamesBaldwin #blackaugust

https://youtu.be/TFaQHQFcT7k

Powerful! #JamesBaldwin

@kathimmel

Quite right too. i read #jamesbaldwin in the 1960s and his influence still endures!

amongst his friends & admirers: nina simone, marlon brando, sartre, jean genet, josephine baker & maya angelou...

if you've never read any baldwin, 'the fire next time' is a good starting point - &, if you've never seen him debate, my goodness, take your arse over to youtube & watch him at oxford tearing strips off william f buckley.
#literature #paris #jamesBaldwin #debate #politics #illustration #portrait

he didn't abandon his birth country, however, & returned to lend his unique perspective (somewhere equidistant from the more tolerant MLK & the more explicitly revolutionary malcolm x) to the civil rights movement. returning to france, he continued writing poetry & fiction - both on his own & through collaborations with margaret mead & richard avadon.
#jamesBaldwin #literature #author #france #civilRights #poetry #illustration #paris

james knew from the start that he was more intelligent than anyone expected him to be & he realised that he'd have to do something with his brain. by the time he was 24 years old, james began to understand that america was a hostile environment for homosexuals - doubly so for those with non-white skin - & he wanted to be free of the racial constraints he'd endured up until then. paris embraced him & he began to write from a context outside of that of a black american.
#jamesBaldwin #art #lgbtq

#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.'

this year, i drew james baldwin (born #otd in 1924) in the act of photobombing paris.
he was a sage for the ages & his observations on society - from race & class to sex - were too much for harlem to hold...even one of its native sons. [THREAD THINGIE]
#jamesBaldwin #literature #illustration #portrait #paris

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was 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, who had ever been alive.” #jamesbaldwin
Happy birthday, Jimmy.

James Baldwin was born this day in 1924.
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Happy 99th Birthday James Baldwin! 🖤🙏🏿 #JamesBaldwin #Mastodon #BlackMastodon