Stephanie

“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

“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

“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

“What's the point of racing around the galaxy if you aren't going to have fun?”
― Zoraida Córdova, A Crash of Fate