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“Time could not be bought. The only coin time accepted was life.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“But I know about suffering; if that helps. I know that it ends. I ain’t going to tell you no lies, like it always ends for the better. Sometimes it ends for the worse. You can suffer so bad that you can be driven to a place where you can’t ever suffer again: and that’s worse.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes is a record of that collision.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“For, you see, he had found his center, his own center, inside him: and it showed. He wasn’t anybody’s nigger. And that’s a crime, in this fucking free country. You’re suppose to be somebody’s nigger. And if you’re nobody’s nigger, you’re a bad nigger: and that’s what the cops decided when Fonny moved downtown.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk