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James Baldwin Archives — Goodman Speaks https://goodmanspeaks.com/tag/james-baldwin/ ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 163473000 “History is not the past. It is the present.” https://goodmanspeaks.com/2023/11/26/history-is-not-the-past-it-is-the-present/impact/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2023/11/26/history-is-not-the-past-it-is-the-present/impact/#respond Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:39:57 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2306 So said James Baldwin in that fine mashup movie (2017) I Am Not Your Negro. It’s the most penetrating thought I know about how time works in the human mind. We never consider that everything we experience in this life is immediately relegated to the past. What we think of as the future is merely …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2023/11/26/history-is-not-the-past-it-is-the-present/impact/feed/ 0 2306 The Fire Next Time https://goodmanspeaks.com/2020/01/11/climate-deniers-leading-the-way-to-fiery-suicide/impact/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2020/01/11/climate-deniers-leading-the-way-to-fiery-suicide/impact/#respond Sat, 11 Jan 2020 15:13:08 +0000 http://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=438 Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide Don’t Let Australia’s Crisis Go to Waste Public anger builds against Morrison I borrow the title of James Baldwin’s 1963 best-seller that articulated his personal agonies in the civil rights movement. In our time what could galvanize people to stop the burning? I wish I had the skill and talent …

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