I play his interviews on my way to work in the morning and somehow his talking points mysteriously align with internal dilemmas I experience right as a pull into work that somehow prepares me for the struggles that keep me awake in countless nights. These complex and painful feelings are so necessary yet difficult to articulate and cope with but the fact that I experience these enigmatic moments of clarity help me cry tears of joy.
@deed50492 ай бұрын
There you go being human again.
@LupeCoded2 ай бұрын
Wow. That's deep my dude. That's a testament to how universally relatable this dude's message was.
@Alex-pi6jt4 жыл бұрын
"Though I was not interested in politics, politics was fascinated by me" James Baldwin He drops profundity at such a rapid pace, one has to listen and listen again and still you'll have missed an oceans worth. Someone once called him the "most interesting man I never met". Yeah.
@christophershrimplin18494 жыл бұрын
Schools need to teach more about James Baldwin.
@ntatemohlomi28848 ай бұрын
Won't happen, he is a disturber of the peace, he asks you to think. That's undesirable.
@brooklynbrooklynatic99798 жыл бұрын
"I refuse to believe that we are going to let ourselves to be manipulated into oblivion by some of the most illiterate people in the history of the world!" ---> Some 30 years later and Baldwin still is so much on point!
@tyronenewsom30477 жыл бұрын
Not only on point, but happening before our very eyes.
@msrobindsommers2515 жыл бұрын
Brooklyn Brooklynatic it has not stopped.. whether you believe it or not.. lN CHRIST weigh the pros and cons.... because you believe it is not happening to you per say .... it does not mean it isnt happening to soooo many others... help them .. do not say the masses do not know what they are talking about.. start back real slow reading some works of those before you.. Fredric Douglas.. Booker T.. Harriet .. Nat T..ect..
@msrobindsommers2515 жыл бұрын
I didn't have your whole comment...(l received the rest when l was finished.. they instilled fear.. that is what the continue to do ... cops.. so they tried to take(steal the whole identity of another. I am woke today concerning something's which are still the same .. because it never.. Never.. Never ended..
@Lozie824 жыл бұрын
Ms Robin D Sommers right on
@lindawalker8124 жыл бұрын
In 2020, couldn't be more relevant today.
@prcty5 жыл бұрын
"Who we think we are controls us more than who we really are."
@epicwizedome5 жыл бұрын
So real
@yinka6615 жыл бұрын
‘You have to know that you don’t know’. Baldwin stands alone in some sense and yet i can just imagine him pulling me up calmly and questioning my observation. So I will say this Baldwin’s text should be in every school, college, university and every single household. That’s my two pence.
@lwazimace25084 жыл бұрын
It's about being able to identify knowledge gaps
@Pablosky1968 Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much from Spain 🤗🌟☀️😌
@ntatemohlomi28849 ай бұрын
7:45 "The reason Plato wanted no poets in his republic, is because writers are by definition, disturbers of the peace."
@BarklordАй бұрын
I love James Baldwin, but I disagree with his reading of Plato’s Republic on that point. The society that emerges in the Republic is one that is driven by excessive desires - addicted and dependent on luxury goods. The resulting city is dependent upon ideological repression. Plato fears that oligarchs will use demogogues to create tyranny. In other dialogues, Plato says true poets participate in divine mania and ecstasy. Truth is not reducible to mere words; Baldwin agrees with Plato on that point about Truth in this talk. Socrates was a disturber of the status quo precisely because the status quo was unjust and concerned more with power and acquisition than investigating truth.
@deseangibir47647 жыл бұрын
Not only is he a great writer but his oratorical skills are captivating!
@tyronenewsom30477 жыл бұрын
He is absolutely enthralling. I read some of his stuff briefly in middle-school. But after my friend took me to see I Am Not Your Negro, I have been constantly watching and reading his work. An absolutely brilliant mind. He is an inspiration for the career I want, and what I want to do with my life.
@omoghanoАй бұрын
He speaks exactly how he writes. The man was a preacher at 14 years of age, also the son of a preacher. I believe that is where he sharpened his speeches ❤
@questelohim...8 жыл бұрын
every child in America 7-12 grade should be require to study and be tested on his work. That's how we change America. The Great Hypocrite!
@tyronenewsom30477 жыл бұрын
He is too honest and intelligent for that to happen. The extent of African-American history, based on our textbooks, is slavery, The Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr, and Barack Obama.
@xyzllii Жыл бұрын
Such a lovely man. Wish he was still alive. I'd love to meet him.
@Wellnessmamahood7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this nugget of wisdom! His words are timeless! Still relevant today!
@not2tees6 жыл бұрын
"Society believes in answers and doesn't like questions." Our unavoidable alienation - Baldwin gets me to wear it and maybe even own it, and I thank him for it. A "minority writer" - yeah, right - the 99% minority. Make that the 99% of writers and poets, at least.
@xproudfoot16 жыл бұрын
100% minority if we were all so honest with ourselves and others
@ErikCBruce4 жыл бұрын
thank you for posting this ... much appreciated
@tommyselbe19992 жыл бұрын
You changed somethings in my life. Mr Jimmy
@PLTexas17 жыл бұрын
The Truth does not change...
@CrimeEnjoyer4 жыл бұрын
God I love the Q&A format.
@bellamarie72545 жыл бұрын
A Captivating, compelling, intellectual man, who I would invite to dinner in the hope an ounce of his brilliance might penetrate my simple brain 😌
@AxmedBahjad7 жыл бұрын
"I refuse to believe that we are going to let ourselves to be manipulated into oblivion by some of the most illiterate people in the history of the world!" James Baldwin
@tomicasessions35310 ай бұрын
Baldwin as your professor ... Your every thought and expression would have to be c thought provoking.. At minimum..
@prcty5 жыл бұрын
"Its not a stage joke, we can blow up the world."
@brooklynbrooklynatic99798 жыл бұрын
This must have been recorded in 1983, no?"17 years until the new century... 59 years old".. = 1983!
@cameronskene40964 жыл бұрын
Nuclear tensions were mentioned as well. Reagan era. I remember it.
@marcusomariprp20068 жыл бұрын
#blessed
@ronrendon4 жыл бұрын
“Liberty & Justice for whites.” USA
@jenniferhampton51713 жыл бұрын
Liberty and justice and healing for every human being. Love is the answer.