James Baldwin - The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (An Excerpt)

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  • čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
  • Part of a talk given at the Community Church in New York in 1963.
    You can now listen to the whole thing here: • James Baldwin - The Ar...

Komentáře • 78

  • @-stellla-1384
    @-stellla-1384 Před 9 lety +17

    Hey! I was able to post the full speech here -
    czcams.com/video/dU0g5fAA2QY/video.html

  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos Před 7 lety +85

    They call the coming artists "dreamers" and tell them to get "real jobs." Till the late day when people realize that their own life and generation is going to pass away like all the others, like a dream into dream, and that only the arts can make something lasting of what's gone.

  • @eloblessed
    @eloblessed Před 10 lety +57

    wisdom is always priceless, wisdom given to us by a genius is timeless. A diamond only increases it's sparkle in time. Thank you Jimmy !!!!!

  • @shanehenderson8515
    @shanehenderson8515 Před 10 lety +32

    James was a true Genius

  • @andcurley
    @andcurley  Před 12 lety +15

    It's an excerpt from the full recording of a talk he gave in 1963, of which I've only heard on a cassette tape. I did some digging around back when I uploaded this, and this small part was the only thing I could find without paying a somewhat ridiculous fee to have an archived version of the full talk on a CD.

    • @GingerDrums
      @GingerDrums Před 4 lety +2

      Many thanks for making the effort. This excerpt has meant a lot to me over the years. In the current context I have been brought back to it.

    • @jamilahperry7352
      @jamilahperry7352 Před 3 lety

      Thank you so gratefully appreciated

  • @NicoleFranklin
    @NicoleFranklin Před 11 lety +14

    Love him. Pure gold.

  • @VisualJazzMedia
    @VisualJazzMedia Před 7 lety +11

    Love and respect to the great James Baldwin.

  • @user-vm9oj4fd1p
    @user-vm9oj4fd1p Před 4 lety +5

    he had such a beautiful smile

  • @BenDaijo
    @BenDaijo Před 11 lety +5

    this was used in a house music song i searched for for years before realizing i had it on vinyl (prozac trax vol1 1994-1999) the song was called 'The Struggle' by Dance Or Die. this is great , thanks for uploading & sharing

  • @TheAwsomeTime
    @TheAwsomeTime Před 11 lety +6

    Amazing. Thank you for the 5:27 minutes of love

  • @gchijioke12
    @gchijioke12 Před 8 lety +14

    +ebony Gem He described himself as a socialist, and he described the Black experience in the most frank and vivid terms in his work. He also wasn't afraid of offending Whites like most people of his generation were, and was one of the few within the mainstream civil rights movement to have the respect of Malcolm X.

  • @CorporationSKY
    @CorporationSKY Před 3 lety +2

    Giving is not an investment it is a total risk of everything..of who you are..who you would like to be..where you would like to go...are you courageous enough to take that risk for the betterment of yourself and society

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      @ibnorator8149 Před 3 lety

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  • @lanamena7603
    @lanamena7603 Před 10 lety +12

    "only the poets," and only some of those; all artists are not the same.

  • @ronnieb7489
    @ronnieb7489 Před 10 lety +8

    To have the complete speech would be the pinnacle of human achievement.

  • @lovinglearningsharing3683

    Truly brilliant

  • @c-core9219
    @c-core9219 Před rokem +1

    You are responsible for the people that you love 🧠 Bring them from darkness into the light

  • @NailahPorter
    @NailahPorter Před 12 lety +2

    Thank you SOOOO much!!! I needed this!!!

  • @natewelsh8721
    @natewelsh8721 Před 7 lety +47

    Marc e. Bassy brought me here

  • @tttimoteo
    @tttimoteo Před 7 lety +37

    milo

  • @jcsump
    @jcsump Před 11 lety +3

    I completely understand...

  • @micahgensis7757
    @micahgensis7757 Před 4 lety +1

    I miss him so much

  • @furyvideo1
    @furyvideo1 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank you l needed to hear this

  • @Yesu
    @Yesu Před 4 lety +1

    beautiful.

  • @ExistentialNights
    @ExistentialNights Před 4 lety +8

    I think him and Christopher Hitchens are the greatest speakers I’ve ever heard. Just wow

  • @kgood70
    @kgood70 Před 11 lety +2

    Exquisite.

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 Před 2 lety +1

    ❤ 'only the poets' ❤
    🤔 the artisans?
    🤔 the children?
    🤔 the nurturers?
    🤔 other groups?
    🤔 poetry can be how you live every day
    ❤ 'giving is total... and this forever' ❤

  • @joekanzangu2758
    @joekanzangu2758 Před 2 lety

    It’s a beautifully high responsibility we must endure

  • @brandonwolf3046
    @brandonwolf3046 Před 4 lety

    Happy birthday my brother

  • @notevennelson
    @notevennelson Před 7 měsíci +1

    i heard this sampled on a Milo song called "poet (black bean)"

  • @tabbazzseaye7549
    @tabbazzseaye7549 Před rokem

    James Arthur Baldwin 1924- 1987 iconic

  • @MbariHogun
    @MbariHogun Před 7 lety +2

    From and including: Wednesday, January 1, 2014
    To, but not including Friday, August 25, 2017
    Result: 1332 days
    It is 1332 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date
    Or 3 years, 7 months, 24 days excluding the end date

  • @DannySeventySeven
    @DannySeventySeven Před 7 lety +1

    Incredibly apt in the UK right now.

  • @loopbasedzero
    @loopbasedzero Před 11 lety +2

    another poet visionary, Tony Williams......

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean5280 Před 6 lety +1

    AMAZING MAN! (though I'd add that psychiatrists and psychologists are among those who don't know us as well as the poets do)

  • @Beejaro
    @Beejaro Před 11 lety +4

    I kind of see where you're getting that from, but in strict terms he doesn't appear to have been religious. He was involved in his church as a kid, but he later said that "if the concept of God has any use, it is to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can't do that, it's time we got rid of him." He probably thought in Biblical symbols to an extent, but he took them in a pretty radical direction. He wasn't nationalistic, but he certainly wasn't passive and into relying on destiny.

    • @mayap6055
      @mayap6055 Před 2 lety

      He seems to me to have been an atheist

  • @CadeCYC
    @CadeCYC Před 2 lety

    Wowww yesss

  • @brackettWI
    @brackettWI Před 12 lety +1

    this is terrific, thanks for uploading.

  • @jasongoodall55
    @jasongoodall55 Před 11 lety

    Started 3 minutes ago with you Keith

  • @mayap6055
    @mayap6055 Před 2 lety

    I want to write this down and post it on my wall

  • @owenpedredwards
    @owenpedredwards Před 9 lety +2

    Is there anywhere I could acquire the whole speech? Thanks for posting this excerpt, it enlightened me many moons ago!

    • @TigerPrawn_
      @TigerPrawn_ Před 4 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/dU0g5fAA2QY/video.html It's on youtube ♥

  • @krewecoumbite
    @krewecoumbite Před 10 lety

    YES

  • @boyvasquez2823
    @boyvasquez2823 Před rokem +1

    Can anyone tell me if this SPECIAL MAN ♂️
    received a Nobel prize.

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 Před 11 lety

    After reading James Baldwin, I get the impression that a lot of people really miss read James Baldwin. For his outspokeness, his unwillingness to cut his words as he spoke on racial matters, the serious focus of tone and his words were, in my view, more than apocalyptic and these words of his has made a lot of people think that Baldwin was a political radical. Baldwin was an old testament moralist

  • @martytrain
    @martytrain Před 10 lety

    reality.

  • @OO-rx6fg
    @OO-rx6fg Před 2 lety

    Yes. Yes. The first stair.
    Guilty

  • @ClaudineMagbag
    @ClaudineMagbag Před 6 lety

    Anyway I can license this for a song?

  • @noccomy
    @noccomy Před 12 lety

    how much is the ridiculous fee for the Archive version of full talk

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 Před 11 lety +1

    I will Quote here
    "If we do not dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water the fire next time!!!!"
    For Baldwin believes that there is a Godly force or forces outside of our world that exist that human being are accountabul to, and if they don't live by these Godly laws will provoke a Godly punishment. This world view is morally conservative...

  • @gabrielnuer9899
    @gabrielnuer9899 Před 5 lety +1

    Poet (Black Bean)

  • @PLTexas1
    @PLTexas1 Před 7 lety +1

    Integrity is not a commodity...

  • @explosivejohnny
    @explosivejohnny Před 12 lety

    EXCERPT FROM WHAT?

  • @lifestraight
    @lifestraight Před 9 lety

    It almost doesn't sound like him. It sounds like a great impersonation of James Baldwin.

  • @KegBol00
    @KegBol00 Před 11 lety

    Frankie Boyle crowd incoming in 3,2,1...

  • @meronmichael
    @meronmichael Před 11 lety

    I seems like what he said was insightful. I just don't understand =[

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 Před 11 lety

    And as an old testament moralist he spoke about racism and the power of white "people" or the priviledge of white people in purely moral terms. He was never a nationalist .i.e. Malcolm X or a socialist by any means. Baldwin, if you read his literature and fiction was a traditionalist in orientation. As we read him we come to understand his view that was based on cosmic vengeance in his eassy "Down at the Cross:Letter from a Region of My Mind"

  • @OO-rx6fg
    @OO-rx6fg Před 2 lety

    Sometimes you've got to fight because you are a man.

  • @RandomFlops
    @RandomFlops Před 4 lety

    Ghiath Matar is dead

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 Před 11 lety

    Sorry just my view of the writer and thinker James Baldwin, who has been mis-read as a militant radical and his fiction has shown him to very far from this view.

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 Před 11 lety

    Thanks, I just found Baldwin just ambivalent and I found that just really boring and only sentimental. Perhaps "he" and "we" need to get of the bible socially and intellectually. I never have seen the work of Baldwin as an art of resistance, but an art of racial ambivalence.

  • @apokolipslord6403
    @apokolipslord6403 Před 3 lety

    very pretentious