Stephanie

“The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic—a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall.”
― 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

“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 their own individual significance. Some known, some mysterious, some unknowable.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“To encounter oneself is to encounter the other: and this is love. If I know that my soul trembles, I know that yours does, too: and if I can respect this, both of us can live. Neither of us, truly, can live without the other: a statement which would not sound so banal if one were not so endlessly compelled to repeat it, and act on that belief.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays