#james bladwin

[myrmeraki]

on (re)building

episode XIX, black sails / if beale street could talk, james baldwin / epilogue, shoot around- suspu / x men origins: magneto (unmade) / utopian futures, kimya dawson / epilogue, shoot around-suspu / walking dead vol 16: a larger world, robert kirkman / miracle mile, 1988 / good bones, maggie smith / x men origins: magneto (unmade)

[mmagpye]

“It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far truer and far more powerful than any of our labels: the labels change, the terror is constant. And this terror has something to do with that irreducible gap between the self one invents-the self one takes oneself as being,which is, however and by definition, a provisional self-and the undiscoverable self which always has the power to blow the provisional self to bits. It is perfectly possible-indeed, it is far from uncommon-to go to bed one night, or wake up one morning, or simply walk through a door one has known all one's life, and discover, between inhaling and exhaling, that the self one has sewn together with such effort is all dirty rags, is unusable, is gone: and out of what raw material will one build a self again?”

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[didierleclair]

“And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, you must lie about it all. If you have to lie about my real role here, if you have to pretend that I hoed all that cotton just because I loved you, then you have done something to yourself. You are mad.”

JAMES BALDWIN, thinker/writer

[wantsneedsandloves]

Mr Baldwin

[redefinedcool]

Prophetic

[mswyrr]

[Americans] are caught in a kind of vacuum between their present and their past--the romanticized, that is, the maligned past, and the denied and dishonored present. It is a crisis of identity. And in such a crisis... it becomes absolutely indispensable to discover or invent... the stranger, the barbarian, who is responsible for our confusion and our pain. Once he is driven out--destroyed--then we can be at peace: those questions will be gone. Of course, the questions never go, but it has always seemed much easier to murder than to change.

James Baldwin, “Nothing Personal”

[bluecollarfilm]

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

In his new film, director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America.

Directed by:   Raoul Peck

Release date:   February 3, 2017

[minhyukornot]

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room