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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
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“When he cannot sleep, he reads poetry to me. His deep voice covers the top half of my sky—”
― Of Cartography: Poems (Volume 81)
― Of Cartography: Poems (Volume 81)
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid”
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“I used to be a poet.
My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.
Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.
Now I am old...
drunk on wine and candle fumes.
Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air
so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.
I used to be a poet
and my words were gold.”
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My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.
Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.
Now I am old...
drunk on wine and candle fumes.
Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air
so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.
I used to be a poet
and my words were gold.”
―
“Loving anybody and being loved by anybody is a tremendous danger, a tremendous responsibility. Loving of children, raising of children. The terrors homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if the society itself did not go through so many terrors which it doesn’t want to admit. The discovery of one’s sexual preference doesn’t have to be a trauma. It’s a trauma because it’s such a traumatized society.”
― James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
― James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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