“Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead.”
More from James Baldwin
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they…”
“And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.”
“Art is here to prove, and to help one bare, the fact that all safety is an illusion.”