Amy

“A story is impelled by the necessity to reveal: the aim of the story is revelation, which means that a story can have nothing—at least not deliberately—to hide. This also means that a story resolves nothing. The resolution of a story must occur in us, with what we make of the questions with which the story leaves us. A plot, on the other hand, must come to a resolution, prove a point: a plot must answer all the questions which it pretends to pose.”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

“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 of his way, and, more than that, out of his children’s way. When”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

“It’s fun to visit New York and get lost in the sea of humanity. But to get lost and stay lost, to not be able to find yourself or feel like you matter anywhere, at any time…It messed with my head. Many”
― Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

“she seemed to be wearing the sunlight, rearranging it around her from time to time, with a movement of one hand, with a movement of her head, and with her smile—”
― James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work