/lit/ - Literature

>>15965923
>About the Negroes, the kind I don't like is the philosophizing prophesying pontificating kind, the James Baldwin kind. Very ignorant but never silent...[Martin Luther] King I don't think is the age's great saint...My question is usually, would this person be endurable if white? If Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute. [Flannery O'Connor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqT1qJMops
*blocks your path*
I miss when ugly motherfuckers put some effort in their education

>>15965923
Martin Luther Queen

>>15965937
Good old Julio

>>15965923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZbeMLga6gA
sorry what

>>15965923
>Why are writers such terrible speakers?

They are writers because they are terrible speakers. When you poor at, or unable to, articulate your feelings off the cuff in speech, you turn to writing where you have more control.

>>15965999
>When you [are] poor at, or unable to, articulate your feelings off the cuff in speech, you turn to writing where you have more control.
I don't know if this is true as a general rule, but it is definitely true of me!

Also, if you liked OP's video, check out the Dick Cavett episode with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal. Though Mailer was unquestionably the greater writer, he just comes across as a sputtering doofus compared to the more eloquent and composed Vidal.

>>15965923
Speak for yourselves, negroids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB4HwyUuzJc

>>15965937
daddy Julito

>>15965923
>Baldwin was the one getting BTFO'd
That Jew got slapped, what are you on about

>>15966092
Mailer being absolutely soused out of his mind didn't help matters.

>>15965999
Tell that to Cicero. What a waste of trips.

>>15966186
He wasn't a terrible speaker so I don't know why you brought him up. Do you lack reading comprehension?

>>15966714
exquisite bait

>>15965923
>Why are writers such terrible speakers?
Because they spend their time writing, not speaking.

>>15967392
False. Good writers use their mouth and ears twice as much as their right hand. Anyway, Baldwin is a good speaker and an interesting thinker, especially when he is not interrupted every other sentence.

>>15966178
Haha, very true

>>15965933
>>15965941
kek

ive noticed that too, alot of my favorite writers are very clumsy when it comes to debates and discussion, for example Dalrymple.

>>15965933
James Baldwin is a pillar of mediocrity.

>>15966092
can't really blame mailer, he hadn't been himself since rip torn bonked his noggin kek

>>15965923
>blocks your path

It is only a shame that Baldwin hadn't died sooner.

>>15968944
>pepe if he real

>>15965923
Read Schopenhauer's 37 Ways to Win an Argument
Speech and debate are not about reason. The guy who is the most unhinged and unprincipled always wins. Anyone who is concerned with whether or not what they are saying is rational, true, and comprehensible will lose in a debate unless they've spent hours preparing in advance, already know what their opponent will say, and have prepared responses.
Basically, debate is for the unscrupulous.

>>15968944
Fuck no wonder Baldwin seemed familiar

>>15969169
Destiny is the perfect example of that.

>>15965923

I don't get it. Baldwin slapped the shit out of that guy. Weiss was not only not making sense or missing the point but being really rude as well.

>>15965941
>>15965933
based

>>15969169
ooh ooh ah ah
>what niggas sayin is
gasp gasp
>the white culture
uhhh ooaahhhh

>>15965999
This. Also it's given that when you spend most of your time writing, you won't exactly develop top notch speaking skills.

>>15968923
>implying you ever heard him speak

>>15965923
*blocks your path*

>>15965923
>Look how Baldwin got BTFO'd here
Did we watch the same video?

>>15969169
>Anyone who is concerned with whether or not what they are saying is rational, true, and comprehensible will lose in a debate
This. You really do have your words fall on deaf ears when people don't actually WANT to believe you.