Kelli Chen

“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Women don't see men the way men want to be seen. They see all the tender places, all the places where blood could flow.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“We’re getting old, he thought, and it damn sure didn’t take long.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country