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James Baldwin
“The blacks have a song which says, 'I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.' No American film, relating to blacks, can possibly incorporate this observation.”
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

James Baldwin
“An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger: the stranger’s presence making you the stranger, less to the stranger than to yourself.”
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

Torrey Peters
“Many people think a trans woman’s deepest desire is to live in her true gender, but actually it is to always stand in good lighting.”
Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

James Baldwin
“It is a terrible thing, simply, to be trapped in one's history, and attempt, in the same motion (and in this, our life!) to accept, deny, reject, and redeem it--and, also, on whatever level, to profit from it.”
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

James Baldwin
“This is, perhaps, a very subtle argument, but black men do not have the same reason to hate white men as white men have to hate blacks. The root of the white man's hatred is terror, a bottomless and nameless terror, which focuses on the black, surfacing, and concentrating on this dread figure, an entity which lives only in his mind. But the root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply want them out his way, and, more than that, out of his children's way.”
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work: Essays

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