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Incredible, Boggs you’re killing this shit! So good.

Yay, finally cracked Book 4: Yoran Cazac and James Baldwin THE SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE YEARS, 1971–1976

Yo Baldwin has been through the most, and also that dude was engaging in some madness too. Humanity is an interesting thing.

…he had been there, “I thought I liked Israel. I liked the people.” But since his visit there, it had become “obvious” to him “why the Western world created the state of Israel,” which, he added, “is not really a Jewish state.” As Baldwin had come to see it, “The West needed a handle in the Middle East. And they created the state as a European pawn.”

I love how well travelled the black literati are in this time. It’s a delight to read because of what lessons & culture is to be experienced in these other places where you’re not the majority but also not categorized the way that you are in the US. It’s intriguing Baldwin in Sweden, France, Switzerland brings me back to Lorde and her writings on Russia and Angela Davis talking Cuba, Brazil, South Africa.

.. He [Brando] could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He’d fuck anything. He’d fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”

This unsubstantiated claim lays bare the persistent difficulties inherent in writing about same-sex intimacies in the pre-Stonewall era and about Baldwin’s complex personal life, in particular.

-Quincy Jones is the goat, RIP 🕊️

While there has long been speculation about just how polymorphous Brando’s sexuality may have been in his private life, it wasn’t until fairly recently that a claim made by the legendary multiple Grammy Award–winning record producer Quincy Jones went, in the parlance of our time, viral: “Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us,” Jones told New York magazine in 2018…