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Temple Folk
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em em said: " The standout was the final story, Due North, which easily gets 5 stars from me.

In the months since I read this, I find myself thinking of the stories often, and wanting to reread them. I’d rate the collection higher now than I initially did. I really
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James Baldwin
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin
“I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin
“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

James Baldwin
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Anis Mojgani
“I dream too much and I don’t write enough and I’m trying to find god everywhere.”
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