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Quote of the Day - 08112026
Personal Reflection Most of us don’t run from the truth because we can’t see it. We run because we can. Some truths arrive quietly. They sit beside us during sleepless nights, ride home with us after difficult conversations, and stare back from the mirror each morning. We recognize them immediately, yet spend months—or years—pretending they aren’t there. Avoidance can feel remarkably peaceful…
James Baldwin in Paris, 📸 by Leslie Schenk (1926–2010), Gelatin silver print, ca. 1949.
QUOTE OF THE DAY : James Baldwin
"RICHARD GOLDSTEIN: When I consider what a risk it must have been to write about homosexuality when you did...
JAMES BALDWIN: You're talking about Giovanni's Room. Yeah, that was rough. But I had to do it to clarify something for myself.
GOLDSTEIN: What was that?
BALDWIN: Where I was in the world. I mean, what I'm made of. Anyway, Giovanni's Room is not really about homosexuality. It's the vehicle through which the book moves. Go Tell It on the Mountain, for example, is not about a church, and Giovanni is not really about homosexuality. It's about what happens to you if you're afraid to love anybody. Which is much more interesting than the question of homosexuality."
"Go The Way Your Heart Beats: An Interview with James Baldwin", The Village Voice, 1984
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin - “Who Is The N-Word”!
We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
James Baldwin
BLACK AUGUST
"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover it happened a hundred years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a great liberation from the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that they are alone. This is why art is important... Now, it is true that the nature of society to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety necessarily always is an illusion. The artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos."
-James Baldwin
