#What James Baldwin

[princestreetco]

#Think | What James Baldwin taught us about a racist’s inner psyche | Chloé Valdary

#PrinceStreet #Learning #Video #Technology #Media #Science #Youtube #Tech #What James Baldwin

[vlindervin7]

“Love him,” said Jacques, with vehemence, “love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And how long, at the best, can it last, since you are both men and still have everywhere to go? Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, and most of that, hélas! in the dark. And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty—they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty; you can give each other something which will make both of you better—forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.” (…) “Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.”

- Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

#james baldwin #giovanni’s room #words #jasmine has thoughts #i know this is like the classic quote everyone knows but if it’s the core message of the novel what am i supposed to do #not make a post that already exists many times? no. anyway. beautiful

[typewriter-worries]

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

[ Text ID: He grins again and everything inside me / moves. Oh, love. Love. ]

#call it what it is; love #you were the sunshine whenever you smiled #james baldwin #if beale street could talk #my upload #literature quote #literature #dark academia #classic academia #light academia

[soulmvtes]

came to the art gallery cafe + got an orange pistachio and carrot cake and the sun has been appearing in and out of the clouds and i've just finished my book, my heart feels so full 💌💌💌💌

#went to buy some film n get my film developed so thought i'd see the new exhibition #it was called found cities lost objects and it was interrogating what it means to live in a city and how we can make it better for everyone #it was considering immigration and protest and gender and the dynamics of space #very interesting tbh and one of the film reels was in imagined conversation w james baldwin about writing and migration #diary #tiyas thoughts

[noweakergirl]

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

— James Baldwin

[Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin / Revenge of the Sith novelization / Taylor Swift - my tears ricochet / Taylor Swift - ‘tis the damn season]

#I'm the world ender baby and I'm back from the dead #a wounded beast #star wars #star wars prequels #darth vader #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #revenge of the sith #rots novelization #matthew stover #hayden christensen #ewan mcgregor #margaret atwood #james baldwin #taylor swift #(regular I don't know what to put in the tags scream)

[communist-ojou-sama]

Building on my last reblog, I really feel like the negative reaction to the writing of someone like Baldwin is largely influenced on the fact that many of the leftists these whites find so distasteful are directly influenced by the writings of Baldwin. Like, I first read Baldwin essays early on in high school and his prose was so beautiful to me that it's influenced the way that I write and speak ever since, and that's exactly the intellectual genealogy that turns these racists off, the genealogy of one black anti-imperialist to the next

#I'm of course nothing compared to James Baldwin but you get what I mean

[firstfullmoon]

It doesn’t do to look too hard into this mystery, which is as far from being simple as it is from being safe. We don’t know enough about ourselves. I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you.

James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

#w #lit #james baldwin #the openness to revelation which is another way of saying to being wrong about what is possible and true

[firelise]

Film & TV I Think About A Lot » If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) dir. Barry Jenkins

"I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him."

#special thanks to Nicholas Brittell for that DAMN SCORE #put his foot in that damn score #i fall asleep to that whole movie soundtrack all the time I literally cried listening to it the other day #if u havent listened to the beale street soundtrack this is your sign go do it now #mygifs #cgedits #if beale street could talk #james baldwin #barry jenkins #KiKi Layne #Stephan James #regina king #Brian Tyree Henry #Colman Domingo #Teyonah Parris #what a cast #movies #film #movie gifs #cftv

[imdowndownbutdefinetlynotout]

Caitlyn Siehl - This is not a love poem/Fleetwood Mac - Landslide/ Raymond Carver - Where I'm calling from/ Lorde - Hard feelings /James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room/ Gunnar Ardelius - I need you more than I love you and I love you to bits/ Lily King - Writers and lovers/ Raymond Carver - what we talk about when we talk about love/ Paramore - In the mourning

#Quotes #Word #Book quotes #Love #Lost love #Paramore #In the mourning #James Baldwin #Raymond carver #giovanni's room #What we talk about when we talk about love #Lorde #Hard feelings #This is not a love poem #Fleetwood Mac #Landslide #Text #Bookcore #Textcore

[capitalisticveins]

Our unit final is fr writing a fanfic-esc ending for this borderline- erotica from the 70s I love creative writing

#James Baldwin #whats good with u bro #there was no need for 4 sex scenes #Teacher said we could write a sex scene too bc she found it funny

[jjackrabbitt]

I’ll let y’all vote on this one

I’ll still probably post about mphfpc sometimes, but not going to focus on it. I still really like the books.

#tagging with the fandom tag just so this doesn’t get buried #mphfpc #**edit following #this is gonna be real funny if the second option wins and you all have to see my notes on like— #Against Interpretation (Susan Sontag). Female Masculinity (Jack Halberstam). Appalachian Reckoning (Harkins & McCarrol). #or anything by James Baldwin or Zitkala-Sǎ. what are y’all gonna do with The Long Deep Grudge by Toni Glipin. #there’s plenty of fiction too but. this is my blog and we’re reading my books. #a lot of that is very very different. from mphfpc

[typewriter-worries]

Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

[ Text ID: Love him, / love him and let him love you. / Do you think / anything else under heaven really matters? ] 

#giovanni's room #james baldwin #my upload #lovecore #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #cottage academia #cottagecore academia #mlm literature #writers of color #classic academia #chaotic academia #call it what it is; love

[lunityviruz]

I think white trans people only identify with their trans identity and so when you criticize them they think it’s an attack on their transness as whole when that’s just not the case

#rants n rambles #I think white queers in general don’t know how to separate their queer identity from themselves at times and that’s what leads them to only #consume queer stuff which isn’t bad at all but #it makes them look at life through one lense #for example #someone said on a post about James Baldwin “omg I didn’t know he was queer!!!” when in reality he was much more than that #he was a black man #and he was a gay man #because race comes first. it always has thanks to white people #but white queers don’t understand that #that second tag isn’t quite right. they only consume queer stuff because that’s the only “relatable” thing to them #lgbtq community #trans community

[squaremyles]

#what im reading #james baldwin #books

[btrflyng]

I have never related to a character as much as David from Giovanni's room. Which is not a good thing.

But oh oh. He is so me. In almost every part. My god, as if the book wasn't depressing enough it also forced me to self reflect and now I don't know what to do.

#giovanni's room #giovannis room #david #james baldwin #what a masterpiece #ah yes my ex partners have not been executed #but i sure as hell let my homophobia internalized ass ghost them #and his father... hello?? my mother #and that he's waiting through the night #i have been there!!! #when my partner was in the hospital possibly dying #and I knee i would only hear of it until 11am the next day #knowing that if I fell asleep the question of his living would be definite #and not a maybe #sorry I'm insane #and the desire to be pure!!! #ahh #i can't anymore #david is my callout

[postersbykeith]

#quotes #James Baldwin #I can't believe what you say #I see what you do