Savannah Samuel

“So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next—one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“You do not have to fully humanize your black characters by dehumanizing the white ones.)”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“That smile was potent, special, the kind of smile that should be saved for formal occasions. Like your finest jewelry.”
― Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

“In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.”
― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name