James Baldwin Speaks! Social Change & The Writer's Responsibility
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Published 2016-09-19
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I play his interviews on my way to work in the morning and somehow his talking points mysteriously align with internal dilemmas I experience right as a pull into work that somehow prepares me for the struggles that keep me awake in countless nights. These complex and painful feelings are so necessary yet difficult to articulate and cope with but the fact that I experience these enigmatic moments of clarity help me cry tears of joy.
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"I refuse to believe that we are going to let ourselves to be manipulated into oblivion by some of the most illiterate people in the history of the world!" -> Some 30 years later and Baldwin still is so much on point!
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"Though I was not interested in politics, politics was fascinated by me" James Baldwin He drops profundity at such a rapid pace, one has to listen and listen again and still you'll have missed an oceans worth. Someone once called him the "most interesting man I never met". Yeah.
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Schools need to teach more about James Baldwin.
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every child in America 7-12 grade should be require to study and be tested on his work. That's how we change America. The Great Hypocrite!
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"Who we think we are controls us more than who we really are."
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‘You have to know that you don’t know’. Baldwin stands alone in some sense and yet i can just imagine him pulling me up calmly and questioning my observation. So I will say this Baldwin’s text should be in every school, college, university and every single household. That’s my two pence.
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Thank you for sharing this nugget of wisdom! His words are timeless! Still relevant today!
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Not only is he a great writer but his oratorical skills are captivating!
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The Truth does not change...
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thank you for posting this ... much appreciated
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"Society believes in answers and doesn't like questions." Our unavoidable alienation - Baldwin gets me to wear it and maybe even own it, and I thank him for it. A "minority writer" - yeah, right - the 99% minority. Make that the 99% of writers and poets, at least.
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A Captivating, compelling, intellectual man, who I would invite to dinner in the hope an ounce of his brilliance might penetrate my simple brain 😌
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God I love the Q&A format.
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You changed somethings in my life. Mr Jimmy
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Thank you very much from Spain 🤗🌟☀️😌
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"I refuse to believe that we are going to let ourselves to be manipulated into oblivion by some of the most illiterate people in the history of the world!" James Baldwin
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Such a lovely man. Wish he was still alive. I'd love to meet him.
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"Its not a stage joke, we can blow up the world."
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