James Baldwin: Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name: (Library of America #98) | 
"If we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less."
I love this quote ❤?❤
When a tradition has been evolved, whatever the tradition is, the people, in general, will suppose it to have existed from before the beginning of time and will be most unwilling & indeed unable to conceive of any changes in it. They do not know how they will live without those traditions that have given them their identity. Their reaction, when it is suggested that they can or that they must, is panic.
- "The Creative Process" - book not on Litsy
I'd like to join in this month @TheAromaofBooks ! 😊 I've included some books I'm already reading, and I've double-listed books that I think will be hard for me to finish. I'm thinking each half of those books will qualify for 1 bingo space if that's okay? I finish my hospital chaplaincy internship on Friday so I should have more time and energy for reading and Litsy soon! 👍 #BookSpin #DoubleSpin #BookSpinBingo #BookSpinBingo2021
#AuthorAMonth - July - James Baldwin: I fear that the words will not fall in place when it comes to describing exposure to the brilliance of James Baldwin‘s mind. I can only hope that I am able to say something of any merit before the end of this month.
pickSpeechless as to how inexhaustible in insights were Baldwin‘s essays. The man was a genius and a fighter. How he maintained his reasoned and monumental love for humanity so called is a mystery to me considering what he endured in the USA. His name should be mentioned alongside Montaigne and Emerson.
A recent gift from @CounterfeitNickel , perfectly timed with my current Baldwin phase and July's #AuthorAMonth being Baldwin! On this Sabbath day of rest before a busy work week, how delightful to curl up with this lovely edition that feels so nice in my hands, in this perfect reading chair. 😊 I'm starting at the beginning, with Notes of a Native Son!
Sometimes it feels like I am trying to catch up to the enlightenment of the 50‘s or 60‘s. #growinguptexan #smalltownsmallminds #betterlate
“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
“I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.”
From Notes of a Native Son
“Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.”
Each week during Black History Month, our library features a different author. This week is James Baldwin. The table started with 6 books by Baldwin and now we're down to 3! #riotgrams #blackhistory
I've been feeling uncomfortable at work lately (in a good way), stuck between my desire to be sensitive to and proactive around issues of inclusion and social justice, and my ignorance of a lot of the context and history. I'm spending some of my Saturday afternoon educating myself. 📓🖋
Added a couple post-it's to the massive therapy wall in 14th St/Union Sq subway station tonight.
Figured I'm not the only one on Litsy who could use this quote right now. 💓
#SocialJustice
.........Just gonna leave this here! #books #happiness #jamesbaldwin #reading #reader
