James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni "A Conversation". Full Broadcast Video （2時間程度・英語）

ジオヴァニ氏「愛はとんでもない責任ですよね。」
ボールドウィン氏「愛という責任だけは取るべきと言える。他はないさ。」（意訳）

やっと見る時間が作れて嬉しい長編インタビュー（対話？）
時代を感じるところ（ずっっっとタバコ吸ってるところとかw）はあるけど、その分なんだか全時代を生きて希望を、愛を選んだ方々の話が聞けてこっちも未来を作る、作れる気持ちになる
周りを見て暗い気持ちになりがちな今時こそ見る甲斐があるかも

閲覧注意：性別二元論、人種差別、虐待、侮蔑的な表現

Giovanni: Love is a tremendous responsibility.
Baldwin: It's the only one to take. There isn't any other.

Very glad I finally made the time to watch this conversation in full
There's a lot about it that speaks to the era it was filmed (the perpetual smoking, for one 😅), but there's something hopeful about seeing elders who lived through a different time choosing hope and love. It makes me feel like I, too, can help build a better future
Especially in dark times like the ones we're in now, it's the kind of thing that's important to see, I think

Content Warning: Gender essentialism, Racism, Abuse, Use of slurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OPYp4s0tc

#NikkiGiovanni #JamesBaldwin

Maybe it's shallow hero-worship on my part, but I do like to read about really talented people recognizing the phenomenal talent of others. These are some lines from a poem James Baldwin wrote for Lena Horne, from one great artist to another:

the lady is the apple
of God's eye:
He's cool enough about it
but He tends to strut a little
when she passes by

the lady is a wonder
daughter of the thunder
smashing cages
legislating rages
with the voice of ages
singing us through.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/88932/le-sporting-club-de-monte-carlo-for-lena-horne

#1960s #civilrights #jamesbaldwin #lenahorne #poetry #blackhistory

The Blues Society released in 2023

In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28797163

#movie #blackmovie #blackmusic #bealestreet #jamesbaldwin #greatmovie #blackmastodon

Nicholas Boggs for Baldwin: A Love Story

https://appearances.authorbuzz.co.uk/appearances/nicholas-boggs-for-baldwin-a-love-story/

Second half of free reading #poem #library #books #atwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut

bookshop and library tour of my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird https://www.robinince.com

This is the first half of my #poem about the freedom to read and those who fight for it #library #books #margaretatwood #jamesbaldwin #progressive #kurtvonnegut

I will be on a bookshop and library tour if my new #poetry book and the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal www.robinince.com

"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin

This definition of love isn't about the infantile version of happiness, it is a state of grace, strength, and renewal. To see someone's flaws is to finally see the person.

#JamesBaldwin #Philosophy #HumanConnection #Fediverse