The Nightside: No More Water: The Fire the Next Time! An American Tower James Baldwin Centennial

No More Water: The Fire the Next Time! An American Tower James Baldwin Centennial.

Recently, Andy O’ joined Steve Chavis on Behind the Mic on The Morning Set to talk about James Baldwin’s lasting impact and some highlights from this weekend’s special on The Nightside.

The Giver by James Baldwin

If the hope of giving
is to love the living,
the giver risks madness
in the act of giving.

Some such lesson I seemed to see
in the faces that surrounded me.

Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,
what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?
The giver is no less adrift
than those who are clamouring for the gift.

If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,
if their empty fingers beat the empty air
and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer
knows that all of his giving has been for naught
and that nothing was ever what he thought
and turns in his guilty bed to stare
at the starving multitudes standing there
and rises from bed to curse at heaven,
he must yet understand that to whom much is given
much will be taken, and justly so:
I cannot tell how much I owe.

We celebrate a towering figure in Civil Rights, Gay Rights, and Literature in In James Baldwin as his 100 birthday was August 2.

Sunday, August 4 from 9 p.m. to midnight on The Nightside on Andy O’ on KUVO JAZZ 89.3…the Oasis in the City.

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