#JamesBaldwin

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Today would have been James Baldwin’s 100th birthday. 🙌🏿

One of the most iconic authors of the 20th century, Baldwin wrote essays, novels, plays, and poems. His work explored racial equality, social justice, and the intersection of his identities as a Black, gay, American man.

What’s your favorite work by James Baldwin? Let us know 👇🏿

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Indeed, Legend...👑🧠❤️🖤💚✍🏿📚✊🏿🙏🏿

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 12

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

“But I am really saying something very simple. The will of the people, or the state, is revealed by the state’s institutions. There was not, then, nor is there, now, a single American institution, which is not a racist institution. And racist institutions – the unions, for one example, the Church, for another, and the Army – or the military – for yet another, are meant to keep the nigger in his place. Yes: we have lived through tokens and concessions but white power remains white. And what it appears to surrender with one hand it obsessively clutches in the other.” – James Baldwin, Dark Days

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“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

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James Baldwin Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. From Nobody Knows My Name Vintage, 1961.

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"If we can liken life, for a moment, to a furnace, then freedom is the fire which burns away illusion." Quote by James Baldwin

Photograph by Richard Avedon 1964

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SOUL : Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin 10

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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my right to exist”

- James Baldwin

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#MeshellNdgeocello: No More Water, New Album Release | via #ChristinaLux

Meshell Ndegeocello’s 14th album, “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin,” is out Friday.Credit…Andre D. Wagner for The New York Times Hinweis von Christina Lux, die sagenhafte Meshell Ndegeocello, hier mit der Rezitation einer auch heute unvermindert aktuellen “Brandrede” inspiriert von den Werken James Baldwins, die damals wie heute die Entrechtung der farbigen Bevölkerung oder PoC, wie…