#TheFireNextTime

[gregorychatman]

#quotes #timemanagement #justwait #posterity #thefirenexttime #stupiddope #tut #ww #weadmittedwewerepowerless #anonymousbookclub #writingworks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbzr9zJLlJU/?utm_medium=tumblr

[karolinium]

“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.” // James Baldwin 1962
 from a couple of days ago, an emotional and educational read

[msv-photography]

Installation no. 940 #installation #massimovolontefotografo #photography #massimovolontedotcom #slowdown #photography #book #freedom #jamesbaldwin #steveschapiro #thefirenexttime #allyouneedislove (presso Harlem, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CF1zCXKMLWa/?igshid=18f1b9ebj6b0q

[eating-their-words]

"I can scarcely remember what we ate, except that it was plentiful, sane, and simple-so sane and simple that it made me feel extremely decadent, and I think that I drank, therefore, two glasses of milk." ~ #thefirenexttime #jamesbaldwin #milk #foodinbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CDevZXqquy5/?igshid=87dpan5udgep

[mjoriginals]

I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering--enough is certainly as good as a feast--but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.

James Baldwin

[jesterrificness]

James Baldwin. Poet. Playwright. Essayist. Civil Rights Activist. Hero. Want to educate yourself on the roots of systemic racism? He is a good place to start. #jamesbaldwin #thefirenexttime #blacklivesmatter #blm #fightracism https://www.instagram.com/p/CBD6gbUpnVz/?igshid=1tee69wufspvg

[avengerofyourheart]

Starting my re-education. Join me. #blacklivesmatter #antiracist . . . #Repost @jane_mount with @get_repost ・・・ thank you all *so* much, for such a great list of antiracism books. there were so many (and are still so many others I could’ve included!) that I limited it to only non-fiction (I’ll do a separate fiction one later!) and still you can see I had to squeeze them in. 📚 if you are overwhelmed, please don’t be!! start with one in the middle like Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race, Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist, and Layla Saad’s Me and White Supremacy. If you are a young reader, the two outside leaning ones on the right are particularly for you (Tiffany Jewell’s This Book Is Anti-Racist and Kendi and Jason Reynold’s Stamped), but don’t feel limited! 📚 any other suggestions or comments, please comment below for everyone! hope this is helpful ❤️. 📚 yes you can repost the image as long as you don’t alter it in any way and tag me in the image and in your caption! 📚 extra special thanks to @marmarfrick for suggesting this stack! 😘 📚 Ideal Bookshelf 1162: AntiRacism 📚 #antiracism #antiracist #idealbookshelf #soyouwanttotalkaboutrace #howtobeabantiracist #stampedfromthebeginning #meandwhitesupremacy #thisbookisantiracist #stamped #betweentheworldandme #thecoloroflaw #blindspot #thewarmthofothersuns #goodtalk #minorfeelings #imstillhere #thefirenexttime #thenewjimcrow #whitefragility #mindfulofrace #justmercy #whentheycallyouaterrorist #whyimnolongertalkingtowhitepeopleaboutrace https://www.instagram.com/p/CA3yuy5j1cL/?igshid=10lzxyxry3c9m

[pjmendez]

James Baldwin
THE FIRE NEXT TIME
Vintage International (1993); first published Dial Press (1963)/Penguin (1964) These two essays, “My Dungeon Shook – Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation” and “Down at the Cross – Letter from a Region in My Mind” were first published in The New Yorker in 1963, before the Civil Rights Act was passed, and it is conceivable that Down at the Cross in particular did as much as any Martin Luther King speech or Supremes Number One pop hit to change the minds of white Americans. The entirety of James Baldwin’s legend can be found in this one essay – his incisiveness, honesty, lyrical spleen, poise – so if there’s a single essential Baldwin text, I’d nominate this. He was trained as an adolescent preacher, and upon realising that institutional religion was stultifying him, could only turn to literature (no longer “forced to kneel at the foot of the cross” by a white Christian slaver called Baldwin); it is with the passion of a preacher that he mediates the truth. Contemporaneously, the FBI opened its grubby, shrill, racist, paranoid, 1,800-page, eight-year file on Baldwin, and the meetings he had with Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, recalled in Down at the Cross, are charged with precariousness; he felt he needed to support their cause, but also to make it known that he wasn’t about to join another religious order. This 106-page volume is a mandatory annual read, to remind everyone that for all the progress people claim has been made in race relations, some person of colour somewhere nearby will still be experiencing every word and more. Oh, and “We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the sum of our achievement”? Not only should he have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he should also have won in Chemistry, for tea that has stayed boiling since 1963! #JamesBaldwin #thefirenexttime #100booksin2019 #100bookschallenge #essays #race #civilrights
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[mamanerd22]

Reading James Baldwin has been on my TBR for quite a while. Listening to The Fire Next Time reminded me so much of listening to Between the World and Me by Ta-Nahesi Coates. Written like a letter to his nephew Baldwin discusses the role of the Negro in America. And although it's been 60 years since this was published Baldwin's words are 100% relevant to today's America. I've determined I need to get a physical copy of The Fire Next Time to annotate the shit out of it. 4.75/5 #JamesBaldwin #TheFireNextTime #BIPOCMaleAuthor #nonfiction #readBlackAuthors #DiverseBookstagrammersRead #audiobook #LibbyApp #BlackLivesMatter #nerdymamabooks #booknerd #blackgirlsreadbookstoo #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CbgMnSkrzF4/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bondvagabond]

Steve Schapiro died Saturday, but it was announced today... He was 87 years old... He was an amazing photographer who photographed everyone from MLK, Muhammed Ali, Barbara Streisand, David Bowie, Ray Charles to Andy Warhol... As we artist say ' the man had an eye'... Sad that he died over the MLK holiday weekend since he photographed the March on Washington in 1963, the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination... He died of pancreatic cancer... After reading a text James Baldwin had written he was inspired to work with Baldwin on an assignment for LIFE magazine traveling through the South and photographing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Jerome Smith... and along the way creating some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights era... In 2017 TASCHEN books published a book of Steve Schapiro's photography alongside text by James Baldwin called THE FIRE NEXT TIME... i had already owned Steve Schapiro's TAXI DRIVER and THE GODFATHER FAMILY ALBUM (he was the on set photographer on those films...) TASCHEN had an event at their then Soho store with Steve Schapiro talking to the great journalist Herb Boyd about his work photographing those crucial moments in the Civil Rights era with James Baldwin... When i went to the talk you know i had to bring my TAXI DRIVER and THE GODFATHER FAMILY ALBUM with me on the chance he would sign those... And both the good folks at Taschen and Steve Schapiro were kind and generous enough to allow it... Steve was surprised that i had his other books, and he was so gracious that he signed all three of my books... In my THE FIRE NEXT TIME book he signed - he wrote "STAY INSPIRED IN THIS WORLD OF OURS - BEST STEVE SCHAPIRO" #jamesbaldwin #MLK #CivilRights #steveschapiro #TheFireNextTime #Taschen #TaxiDriver #TheGodfatherFamilyAlbum #restinpictures #vagabond https://www.instagram.com/vgbnd/p/CY2A_UVJXC1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[chefsouspression]

• @retrosoul__ I had never seen this photo before. @uptowndolly always comes through with the gems. Thank you, Buddy! 🤗 📸 Photo: James Baldwin, Paris, 1960 [ Photo Credit: @samshawphoto | Shaw Family Archives, Ltd. ] #fortheculture #iamnotyournegro #thefirenexttime #blackculture #blackhistory #thisisamerica #queerauthor #fortheculture #jamesbaldwin #jimmybaldwin #blackandwhitephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaoNtUF7Ri/?utm_medium=tumblr

[spanky606]

Regrann from @retrosoul__ - 📹 James Baldwin breaks down why race relations can be gauged by the state of our institutions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [ The Dick Cavett Show, 1968 ] - - - - - - - #jamesbaldwin #blackasfuck #civilrights #activist #blackauthor #blackartmatters #thepriceoftheticket #allblackeverything #fortheculture #iamnotyournegro #thefirenexttime #dickcavett #notesofanativeson #melanin #blackculture * I AM NOT THE COPYRIGHT OWNER - #regrann

[eating-their-words]

"I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about 'the man.' We had the liquor, the chicken, the music, and each other, and had no need to pretend to be what we were not. This is the freedom that one hears in some gospel songs, for example and in jazz." ~ I meant to post this yesterday for James Baldwin's birthday but I didn't get my act together in time. I read this one in a day, couldn't put it down. ~ #thefirenexttime #jamesbaldwin #baldwin #liquor #chicken #foodinbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbujwKKs9C/?igshid=ljh4fl05173o

[mjoriginals]

People, I felt, ought to love the Lord because they loved Him, and not because they were afraid of going to Hell. I was forced, reluctantly, to realize that the Bible itself had been written by men, and translated by men out of languages I could not read, and I was already, without quite admitting it to myself, terribly involved with the effort of putting words on paper.

James Baldwin

[roodgeads]

what a phenomenal read. the opening letter from baldwin to his nephew is tender in utilising pacifistic language that posits the white community as the victims of racism, ‘for these innocent people have no other hope’, held hostage to their bigotry. the second half of the book is a sharp contrast as the prose becomes sermon-like. baldwin explores the subjugation of the black community and calls for peaceful revolution, the language fervent with anti-racist sentiment that moves and inspires the reader. how sad then, to see there has been such little progress since. 4/5 ⭐️ #book #bookstagram #ukbookstagram #america #racism #antiracism #blm #jamesbaldwin #baldwin #thefirenexttime #nonfiction #antiracismeducation https://www.instagram.com/p/CLfLmhKFeK4/?igshid=1plf83shea0f9

[samantharosejohnson]

🔥 THE FIRE NEXT TIME • JAMES BALDWIN 🔥 (4/24!) I started this last year but finished it this weekend. It’s a short book and a relatively quick read but has a lot of information to absorb. This book is so relevant NOW. Literally every single person should read this. I could quote a million things so I shared some photos in the slides. If you want to follow what I’m reading join me on goodreads! You can find me at the link in my bio. #booksbooksbooks #jamesbaldwin #thefirenexttime #literature #classiclit https://www.instagram.com/p/CKwr2TilhcU/?igshid=jotylyjfnank