bell hooks: In Her Own Words
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The One Thing We Don't Know About James Baldwin
I teach a whole seminar on James Baldwin. I think it's not talked about enough that he was concerned so much with the well-being of black family life. He tried hard to be a parenting figure for his nieces and nephews. And we don't talk enough about the gay men and women in our culture who are there as enlightened witnesses. Every child should have a kind of guardian angel that is not so much in the primary family structure but that can come in and help rescue and transform.
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