Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.
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And he has.
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It’s beautiful and a blessing to all of us that such a person lived. At least once a month, though, I get sad when I think about the fact that I didn’t have the opportunity to meet him before he died.
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Goddamnit do I love that man's writings.
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Baldwin is an absolute treasure.
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“Going to Meet the Man” - heartbreaking brilliance. I have my students read it silently all together in class. Their fresh, collective awe never fails to renew my hope in the human endeavor.
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this is perfect
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"Giovanni's Room" shook me to my core. I'd never read him, had heard of him, yes, but that book changed me on a quantum level.
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I think Baldwin’s piece on Mailer one of the best ever written. He captured Mailer’s ego-essence as only Mailer himself could have done.
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One of my favorite essays
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Such an interesting read from the New Yorker (Feb. 2009) but the last line will break you.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/02/09/another-country …
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I think you insult the memory of James Baldwin, a courageous & exceptional writer, who happened to be black & gay in mid century America. So tell us how
@SarahJeong gets to “appropriate” his pain? Or the pain of the Chinese Exclusion Act or of Japanese Internment. She is Korean.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Truth, genuinely valuable truth.
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Always with the Dolly Parton.
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Enjoy this one as well (disclaimer: the headline is misleading / playing with denotation). On complicated relationship between Jewish and Black community https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html?mcubz=3 …
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Love it.
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How dare you, to create a parallel between an article 57yrs old, that gave insight into the struggle that faces blacks, to this racist witch. Shame on you.
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what a beautiful voice (written and spoken) Baldwin had. He imagined love out of pain and fury.
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God bless Dolly Parton.
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Appreciate this. Especially to loose the snark trying to come out of me while observing white men in a dither about being called white men.
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