#james baldwin

[afterthemovie]

condemned to being an optimist by elia j. ayoub for shado

[bluewillowmoon]

“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not at all a secret for the people he encounters. He encounters, because he must encounter, those people who see his secrecy before they see anything else, and who drag these secrets out of him; sometimes with the intention of using them against him, sometimes with more benevolent intent; but, whatever the intent, the moment is awful and the accumulating revelation is an unspeakable anguish. The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not to be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.”

— James Baldwin, from Another Country (Penguin Classics, 2006)

[chantssecrets]

“In 1970, Turkish theater owner Engin Cezzar produced James Baldwin’s groundbreaking play about gay relationships in a 1970s Istanbul prison setting. In 1969, jazz musician Don Cherry, visiting Istanbul with Okay Temiz to record an album, reunited with Baldwin and contributed music to the production. The recording session followed extensive discussions and featured performances by Cherry and Temiz, heightening the play’s tension.“

[chantssecrets]

James Garner, Diahann Carroll, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, and Paul Newman at the 1963 March on Washington.

[soggypages]

Hmm I want to slurp James Baldwin's writing like a warm soup. or maybe sip on it like a red wine.

[arinzeture]

[aaronrafael]

[sentientsky]

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal // tumblr user @juno-infernal // James Baldwin, Nothing Personal // tumblr user @veryluckyclovers (original post: x) // Florence and the Machine, "Wish That You Were Here" // a poem i wrote about being long-distance with my partner

on long-distance love. on adoration that defies the space between