“Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.”
― Collected Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
― Collected Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“Wisely, Baldwin insisted that we are always more than our pain. Not only did he believe in our capacity to love, he felt black people were uniquely situated to risk loving because we had suffered.”
― Salvation: Black People and Love
― Salvation: Black People and Love
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