#james baldwin

[luthienne]

James Baldwin, from Another Country [ID'd]

[queertations]

[ Image Description: "But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends." End ID. ]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[toiich]

James Baldwin

[chantssecrets]

Community gardens are mutual aid...

[metamorphesque]

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

[hayaomiyazaki]

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970 – directed by Terence Dixon

[lovecrumbss]

James Baldwin talking about love

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

- James Baldwin talking about Love

[lunamonchtuna]

I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck (2016) (via lunamonchtuna)

[icarus-suraki]

Today, August 2 2024, would have been James Baldwin's 100th birthday.

[theinternetarchive]

nina simone and james baldwin by richard avedon, 1963.

[ireadvintage]

This month, in celebration of Pride and James Baldwin's crucial contributions to queer literature, we commissioned digital artist Danielle Taphanel, @dtaphanel, to create a Tumblr-only, reimagined cover for Baldwin's debut novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, one of America’s greatest classics.

Danielle Taphanel, a self-taught, disabled, non-binary, first-generation Filipino-Latino artist who loves plants and folklore, delicately captures the mosaic of themes presented in a book titled after a beloved Black American spiritual song of the same name.

This year marks 100 years of James Baldwin, an iconic writer and activist whose work explores the complexities of race, identity, love, and class with searing foresight. The digital-only artwork was made exclusively for Tumblr and is not featured on any purchasable edition. 

[kropotkindersurprise]

James Baldwin, talking about living his life based on observable fact, instead of white liberal promises. [link]

[theimpossiblecool]

"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light."

James Baldwin.