baldwin is the comfort i've been waiting to hear. to hear my feelings back to me and it takes incredible courage to understand yourself and to get to the state of self expression, fluidly... but because you need it.
“The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t, statesmen don’t, priests don’t, Union leaders don’t. Only the poets.” - James Baldwin
He is only a genius because he knows himself. He is no better or worse than any of us. No better citizen, nor writer, nor thinker. We all have it within us to choose a life that is as powerful and impactful and genius and Baldwin's. We must all personally choose to accept the burden that that life comes with at every step.
To know yourself requires introspective work and honesty. After one has done the work, they can become prolific thinkers and writers but please don’t assume, we all have DONE the work and therefore, we all are at this moment, prolific thinkers and writers WITH moral courage. Many of his counterparts during his generation, lacked moral courage and self introspection……and therefore, failed to meet Jimmy where he was.
"...And in so far as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it..." And what I think of is a lyric, "When I'm writing I'm trapped in between the line, I escape when I finish the rhyme"
James Baldwin - "I would never come before you in a position of a complainant for doing something that I must do." [...] "I want to suggest two propositions. The first one is: the poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't; only the poets - that's my first proposition. [...] The second proposition... is what I really want to get at tonight. And it sounds mystical I think - in a country like ours and at a time like this, but something awful is happening to a civilisation when it ceases to produce poets and what is even more crucial, when it ceases in any way whatever to believe in the report that only poets can make." Genius up there with Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain. Kudos to a legend.
Baldwin speaking in 1963 -------------------------------------- 🤔 he begins by talking about abstract nouns (courage, democracy, etc which exist in folk's imagination, not the touching, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, etc. world of bodily senses) 🤔 he says the poets (meaning all artists) are 'the only people who know about us' and that any country which ceases to produce and/or believe in poets is destitute 👍 'out of this [danger] ...we pluck one flower of safety' [quoting Shakespeare] 👍 me: same message as so many songs such as 'Guantanamera' 👍 'you are corralled, you are bull-whipped to dealing with what hurt you ... and [this allows you to] connect with other people's pain ...and it works the other way around too ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 [so that there is #unity #togetherness #wherethereislove] 👍 🤔 he draws the analogynof the artist as a person who stands alone in a field watching the warmth and light and comfort of a home into which they can be incited but must leave through their own artistic need] 👍 🤔 he describes his 'tribe' as 'artists' so this would cover all space, all time, all cultures 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 #unity #togetherness #wherethereislight - the light of understanding or 'enlightenment' as he calls it 👍 🤔 a people 'unlettered in language... totally unlettered in the language of the heart 24:59 wholly distrustful.of whatever cannor be touched ... who believe that they can make suffering obsolete...[but know that] the pain which sings a toothache is the pain which saves your life' 👍 'there is no negro problem ... [but we do live] in an emotional kindergarten' 👍 27:20 ... there is nothing that can be done for me; there is nothing that can be done for negros: it must be done for you [of such a myopic, immature brain]' 👍 ' we have arrived at a point where we do not know what to tell our children' 28:28 👍 🤔 'gonorrhea is not preferable to siphilis: the framework in which we operate weighs too heavily on us and is about to kill us' 👍 29:15 👍 the system operates 'not to change the situation but to have seemed to have done it' 30:01 👍 me: 🇯🇲 what Bob Marley and so many singers call 'Babylon system' 👍
Thank you for this video. There are some great points mentioned about James Baldwin here in this interview from his biographer. ruclips.net/video/RrXiNl3X4wA/видео.html
God will punish all the evil demons worldwide. If the rich were not so greedy, heartless, and evil, there would not be poverty any where in the world. Karma never loses an address..
1. the comments here are crazy 2. everthing said with this ton and this audio becomes a great speech , no matter how much rhetorical curves you need for me philosopher it sucks to hear something without organization, or some voice ton as it were the ultimate wisdom but is not, unless i am hearing Alan Watts before sleep
the internet can b a very terrible place but stuff like this is why i love it. i never heard about james baldwin in school, i should have, a lot of ppl should. thank you for the upload<3
A visionary. Considering the moment we find ourselves in, this is as prescient today as was back then. He was somebody who was aware and we are fortunate to benefit from his craft/life/insight of the human condition.
"The human conditon" always reads to me as a subtle disdain for all humanity, as if blaming the entire species for the horrors of a relative few. Like a sneaky semantic trick no one notices, letting those relative few horrormongers hide and control the narrative at the same time. Not saying anything about you yourself, just commenting a thought on language
A Prophet is his calling, his peers are Gwen Lansberry, Emmet Tillman and Medgar Evers. Just to inform you on how long he has inspired my era to keep the deferred dream alive. We as motivators are willing to share his living legacy with this era that hasn’t given up on us. God Speed
Basically, people got to tell their offsprings that it is wrong to mock, joke and tease people due to their differences especially skin colour. This type of education can only come from parents of 4 year olds upwards cause that’s about when the kids notice that we all come in different colours. It’s a parental responsibility that’ll give the future generations hope and better life for all. If it comes from a black person of mature age who’ve been a victim of such life that person will be killed/jailed.
With all due respect, that's where offspring learn they are different from their nuclear family's. Maybe if our biological parents set an example of simply being human as a common trait of acceptance then our offspring will mock their peers. Out grow this hereditary human stain of what it takes to be important. Denial is an adaptation not a mutation🦋
You are compelled, you are corralled, you are bull whipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you, and what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, if it hurt you, that is not what is important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what bull whips you, what corrals you, what drives you, torments you, is that *you* must find some way, of using this to connect you with everyone else alive, this is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial, except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain and insofar as you can do that with your pain you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too. In so far as I can tell you what it is like to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.
@@JOEFRO2What got deleted was an explanation of what pain is, and how it's inherently the opposite of trivial. Pain saves your life. Ignoring pain and abjectly trivializing it is exactly how we got here, to planetary mass extinction.
@@roseneal2392 Greed Gluttony Pride Sloth Lust Anger Envy these are the Catholic 7 deadly sins (I'm pretty sure) As far as what Bukowski meant in that quote, I think I understand but it's hard to explain. It was biographical, coming out of his own life experience. Basically. Life sucks. Find something you really love to do and do it, just to keep your sanity, but you're going to die anyway, and the energy you pour into your passion (his was writing) will sometimes feel like the using up of your limited supply of life force. It's dark, funny, and, perhaps, somewhat the truth of the matter.
His genius is mind blowing. His wit, brutal honesty, passion, suffering, procrastination that comes with being an artist at times, and love of humanity. Sharing pain will elevate a person’s spirits, therefore it elevates yours. Artists are soul doctors...
"all safety is an illusion"
Chief get it cos we mean it
7:20 8:53 WOW.
baldwin is the comfort i've been waiting to hear. to hear my feelings back to me and it takes incredible courage to understand yourself and to get to the state of self expression, fluidly... but because you need it.
There are ads for the m*rmon cult and a scam targeting elders on this video
one of the least intellectually corrupted people of all time.
“The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t, statesmen don’t, priests don’t, Union leaders don’t. Only the poets.” - James Baldwin
yeah chief get it cuz we mean it
He is only a genius because he knows himself. He is no better or worse than any of us. No better citizen, nor writer, nor thinker. We all have it within us to choose a life that is as powerful and impactful and genius and Baldwin's. We must all personally choose to accept the burden that that life comes with at every step.
To know yourself requires introspective work and honesty. After one has done the work, they can become prolific thinkers and writers but please don’t assume, we all have DONE the work and therefore, we all are at this moment, prolific thinkers and writers WITH moral courage. Many of his counterparts during his generation, lacked moral courage and self introspection……and therefore, failed to meet Jimmy where he was.
I’m sure Baldwin would’ve liked to think that he was proof of the necessity of his type of artist. He definitely didn’t.
A bright light in the fog
"...And in so far as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it..." And what I think of is a lyric, "When I'm writing I'm trapped in between the line, I escape when I finish the rhyme"
No words to describe the tenderness, gratitude, and humility we feel to be lucky enough to hear this incomparable stream of thoughts and words…🙏🏾
This is mind-blowing perspective, WOW!
DMVU brought be here.
With all the gratitude I can muster, thank you for uploading this.
rest in peace...a great amazing story teller..
0:51 for the people from earl
yeah chief get it cus we mean it🗣
James Baldwin - "I would never come before you in a position of a complainant for doing something that I must do." [...] "I want to suggest two propositions. The first one is: the poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don't, statesmen don't, priests don't, union leaders don't; only the poets - that's my first proposition. [...] The second proposition... is what I really want to get at tonight. And it sounds mystical I think - in a country like ours and at a time like this, but something awful is happening to a civilisation when it ceases to produce poets and what is even more crucial, when it ceases in any way whatever to believe in the report that only poets can make." Genius up there with Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain. Kudos to a legend.
Pure enlighten min( gross the peg in Bbw
Baldwin speaking in 1963 -------------------------------------- 🤔 he begins by talking about abstract nouns (courage, democracy, etc which exist in folk's imagination, not the touching, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, etc. world of bodily senses) 🤔 he says the poets (meaning all artists) are 'the only people who know about us' and that any country which ceases to produce and/or believe in poets is destitute 👍 'out of this [danger] ...we pluck one flower of safety' [quoting Shakespeare] 👍 me: same message as so many songs such as 'Guantanamera' 👍 'you are corralled, you are bull-whipped to dealing with what hurt you ... and [this allows you to] connect with other people's pain ...and it works the other way around too ❤ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 [so that there is #unity #togetherness #wherethereislove] 👍 🤔 he draws the analogynof the artist as a person who stands alone in a field watching the warmth and light and comfort of a home into which they can be incited but must leave through their own artistic need] 👍 🤔 he describes his 'tribe' as 'artists' so this would cover all space, all time, all cultures 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 #unity #togetherness #wherethereislight - the light of understanding or 'enlightenment' as he calls it 👍 🤔 a people 'unlettered in language... totally unlettered in the language of the heart 24:59 wholly distrustful.of whatever cannor be touched ... who believe that they can make suffering obsolete...[but know that] the pain which sings a toothache is the pain which saves your life' 👍 'there is no negro problem ... [but we do live] in an emotional kindergarten' 👍 27:20 ... there is nothing that can be done for me; there is nothing that can be done for negros: it must be done for you [of such a myopic, immature brain]' 👍 ' we have arrived at a point where we do not know what to tell our children' 28:28 👍 🤔 'gonorrhea is not preferable to siphilis: the framework in which we operate weighs too heavily on us and is about to kill us' 👍 29:15 👍 the system operates 'not to change the situation but to have seemed to have done it' 30:01 👍 me: 🇯🇲 what Bob Marley and so many singers call 'Babylon system' 👍
Thank you for this video. There are some great points mentioned about James Baldwin here in this interview from his biographer. ruclips.net/video/RrXiNl3X4wA/видео.html
Never will be another.
0:51 DREEEEEEEEAAAAAAMMMM
CHIEF GET IT CAUSE WE MEAN IT
@@wastemanagementcompany MASK OFF MASK ON WE TRIK OR TREATIN
thank you Swampman.
Imprecise words
I love James Baldwin. Even if I do not agree with him on some point, he makes me think. What a wonderful thinker, writer, speaker, and artist.
0:30 I disagree
That I must do...that I must do...that I must do...
You can’t tell them bc you don’t know! Felt that
God will punish all the evil demons worldwide. If the rich were not so greedy, heartless, and evil, there would not be poverty any where in the world. Karma never loses an address..
1. the comments here are crazy 2. everthing said with this ton and this audio becomes a great speech , no matter how much rhetorical curves you need for me philosopher it sucks to hear something without organization, or some voice ton as it were the ultimate wisdom but is not, unless i am hearing Alan Watts before sleep
the internet can b a very terrible place but stuff like this is why i love it. i never heard about james baldwin in school, i should have, a lot of ppl should. thank you for the upload<3
balance yourself between god and your work
Breathtaking speech
A best friend in my mind.
“And the world comes at you again”
0:51
dreeeeeams
chief get it cause we mean it
A visionary. Considering the moment we find ourselves in, this is as prescient today as was back then. He was somebody who was aware and we are fortunate to benefit from his craft/life/insight of the human condition.
"The human conditon" always reads to me as a subtle disdain for all humanity, as if blaming the entire species for the horrors of a relative few. Like a sneaky semantic trick no one notices, letting those relative few horrormongers hide and control the narrative at the same time. Not saying anything about you yourself, just commenting a thought on language
A Prophet is his calling, his peers are Gwen Lansberry, Emmet Tillman and Medgar Evers. Just to inform you on how long he has inspired my era to keep the deferred dream alive. We as motivators are willing to share his living legacy with this era that hasn’t given up on us. God Speed
Genius. What a great human being. HE lives on
True nourishment for my soul 🗝
Basically, people got to tell their offsprings that it is wrong to mock, joke and tease people due to their differences especially skin colour. This type of education can only come from parents of 4 year olds upwards cause that’s about when the kids notice that we all come in different colours. It’s a parental responsibility that’ll give the future generations hope and better life for all. If it comes from a black person of mature age who’ve been a victim of such life that person will be killed/jailed.
With all due respect, that's where offspring learn they are different from their nuclear family's. Maybe if our biological parents set an example of simply being human as a common trait of acceptance then our offspring will mock their peers. Out grow this hereditary human stain of what it takes to be important. Denial is an adaptation not a mutation🦋
Brilliant man.
You are compelled, you are corralled, you are bull whipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you, and what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, if it hurt you, that is not what is important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what bull whips you, what corrals you, what drives you, torments you, is that *you* must find some way, of using this to connect you with everyone else alive, this is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial, except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain and insofar as you can do that with your pain you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too. In so far as I can tell you what it is like to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.
I do not owe a society that cannibalizes me connection. This society/dominator culture chooses suffering. I will not.
@@StrawmnMcPerson Cool.
@@JOEFRO2What got deleted was an explanation of what pain is, and how it's inherently the opposite of trivial. Pain saves your life. Ignoring pain and abjectly trivializing it is exactly how we got here, to planetary mass extinction.
Charles Bukowski (another artist) said "Find what you love, and let it kill you"
So a deadly sin is a craving?
@@roseneal2392 Greed Gluttony Pride Sloth Lust Anger Envy these are the Catholic 7 deadly sins (I'm pretty sure) As far as what Bukowski meant in that quote, I think I understand but it's hard to explain. It was biographical, coming out of his own life experience. Basically. Life sucks. Find something you really love to do and do it, just to keep your sanity, but you're going to die anyway, and the energy you pour into your passion (his was writing) will sometimes feel like the using up of your limited supply of life force. It's dark, funny, and, perhaps, somewhat the truth of the matter.
Thank you for the freedom to be honest during your trendy era😷
could be referring to unrequited love
Mr. Baldwin will not let you off the hook.
I am now reading "Jimmy's Blues" and will next watch "If Beal Strret Could Talk" based on his book by the same title.
LOVED The Movie.
I hope you did 💜 Very few things have broken my heart more.
His genius is mind blowing. His wit, brutal honesty, passion, suffering, procrastination that comes with being an artist at times, and love of humanity. Sharing pain will elevate a person’s spirits, therefore it elevates yours. Artists are soul doctors...
Absolutely.
Here is a cool song about the struggles of the artist ruclips.net/video/jcWDbMErfXg/видео.html