Stephanie

“In this magical life we live it’s as though everyone we’ve ever met is like a star in the galaxy of our experience and beingness. Some are near and shine bright and others are distant and faint. Some present, some past but all significant. All part of the story of our existence - all with own individual significance. Some known, some mysterious, some unknowable.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“This is, perhaps, a very subtle argument, but black men do not have the same reason to hate white men as white men have to hate blacks. The root of the white man's hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on the black, surfacing, and concentrating on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind. But the root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply want them out his way, and, more than that, out of his children's way.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

“An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger: the stranger’s presence making you the stranger, less to the stranger than to yourself.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

“It is said that the camera
cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees
what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. The language of
the camera is the language of our dreams.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays