Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
-- Nikki Giovanni

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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

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OPYp4s0tc#

Getting into James Baldwin. So many of his concerns are still ours today, regardless of color, and he's comforting to hear, but makes me sad to realize that even after his eloquence and our efforts, the world refuses to change into a home of patience, inclusion, kindness, courage and dignity. 🤬

#justice
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#love
#art

Played around with a trail photo (from my forest walk).

[ Choices By #NikkiGiovanni.

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do

It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal

I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry. ]

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Nikki Giovanni:
🎵 Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like

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https://nikkigiovannimh.bandcamp.com/track/poem-for-a-lady-whose-voice-i-like

https://open.spotify.com/track/1j2THeIRR7pwny3H4Lu7Zp

Hanging out with two poems today, both getting at a bit of the secret history we all carry, but in very different ways.

Excerpt from poem #1, "Nikki-Rosa" by Nikki Giovanni

"childhood remembrances are always a drag
if you’re Black
you always remember things like living in Woodlawn
with no inside toilet
and if you become famous or something
they never talk about how happy you were to have
your mother
all to yourself and
how good the water felt when you got your bath
from one of those
big tubs that folk in chicago barbecue in"

Full poem is available here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48219/nikki-rosa

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