Amy Denuzzio

“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this—which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never—the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. People more advantageously placed than we in Harlem were, and are, will no doubt find the psychology and the view of human nature sketched above dismal and shocking in the extreme.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time