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

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  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    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 10 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    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 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    James was a true Genius

  • @VisualJazzMedia
    @VisualJazzMedia 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love and respect to the great James Baldwin.

  • @NicoleFranklin
    @NicoleFranklin 11 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love him. Pure gold.

  • @BenDaijo
    @BenDaijo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @andcurley
    @andcurley  12 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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I uploaded this, and this small part was the only thing I could find without paying a somewhat ridiculous fee to have an archived version of the full talk on a CD.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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so gratefully appreciated

  • @πανταπεριμενω
    @πανταπεριμενω 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    he had such a beautiful smile

  • @NailahPorter
    @NailahPorter 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @furyvideo1
    @furyvideo1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you l needed to hear this

  • @gchijioke12
    @gchijioke12 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    +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.

  • @lovinglearningsharing3683
    @lovinglearningsharing3683 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Truly brilliant

  • @ronnieb7489
    @ronnieb7489 11 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @notevennelson
    @notevennelson ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @tttimoteo
    @tttimoteo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    milo

    • @naoarranjeinenhumnomemelhor
      @naoarranjeinenhumnomemelhor 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Timoteo Prezzavento who told you to think album of the year, ruby yacht forever and ever and ever and ever

    • @liamrappleye5205
      @liamrappleye5205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@naoarranjeinenhumnomemelhor and ever and ever and ever

    • @oranebrown2169
      @oranebrown2169 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Poet and farmer right here.

  • @micahgensis7757
    @micahgensis7757 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss him so much

  • @Yesu
    @Yesu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    beautiful.

  • @lanamena7603
    @lanamena7603 10 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @CorporationSKY
    @CorporationSKY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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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      @ibnorator 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @jcsump
    @jcsump 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I completely understand...

  • @natewelsh8721
    @natewelsh8721 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Marc e. Bassy brought me here

    • @MariahMonique
      @MariahMonique 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nate Welsh yes! Which song?

    • @MarkWorthen
      @MarkWorthen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only the Poets Mixtape (2014)

  • @kgood70
    @kgood70 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Exquisite.

  • @c-core9219
    @c-core9219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @SueLyons1
    @SueLyons1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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' ❤

  • @ExistentialNights
    @ExistentialNights 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @brackettWI
    @brackettWI 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is terrific, thanks for uploading.

  • @joekanzangu2758
    @joekanzangu2758 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It’s a beautifully high responsibility we must endure

  • @DannySeventySeven
    @DannySeventySeven 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredibly apt in the UK right now.

  • @brandonwolf3046
    @brandonwolf3046 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy birthday my brother

  • @mayap6055
    @mayap6055 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @tabbazzseaye7549
    @tabbazzseaye7549 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    James Arthur Baldwin 1924- 1987 iconic

  • @MbariHogun
    @MbariHogun 7 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @CadeCYC
    @CadeCYC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wowww yesss

  • @loopbasedzero
    @loopbasedzero 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @EyeLean5280
    @EyeLean5280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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)

  • @jasongoodall55
    @jasongoodall55 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Started 3 minutes ago with you Keith

  • @Beejaro
    @Beejaro 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He seems to me to have been an atheist

  • @krewecoumbite
    @krewecoumbite 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    YES

  • @boyvasquez2823
    @boyvasquez2823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @owenpedredwards
    @owenpedredwards 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @TigerPrawn_
      @TigerPrawn_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/dU0g5fAA2QY/w-d-xo.html It's on youtube ♥

  • @noccomy
    @noccomy 12 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ClaudineMagbag
    @ClaudineMagbag 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyway I can license this for a song?

  • @martytrain
    @martytrain 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    reality.

  • @explosivejohnny
    @explosivejohnny 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    EXCERPT FROM WHAT?

  • @OO-rx6fg
    @OO-rx6fg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes. Yes. The first stair.
    Guilty

  • @PLTexas1
    @PLTexas1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Integrity is not a commodity...

  • @lifestraight
    @lifestraight 9 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @gchijioke12
      @gchijioke12 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +lifestraight Bad audio.

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @gabrielnuer9899
    @gabrielnuer9899 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poet (Black Bean)

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 11 ปีที่แล้ว +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...

  • @Bestway2learn
    @Bestway2learn 11 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @KegBol00
    @KegBol00 11 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @RandomFlops
    @RandomFlops 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ghiath Matar is dead

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @OO-rx6fg
    @OO-rx6fg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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"

  • @ebonygem255
    @ebonygem255 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very pretentious