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“Mama must feed her children- thats the bottom line; and there is a level on which it can be said that she cannot afford to care how she does it.
But when a man cannot feed his woman or his children, he finds it, literally, impossible to face them.

The song says: now, when a woman gets the blues, Lord/she hangs her head and cries/but when a man gets the blues, Lord/he grabs a train and rides

History, I contend, is the present – we, with every breath we take, every movie we make, our history – and what goes around, comes around.


James Baldwin, April 2, 1985

This book, as all of James Baldwin’s books tend to do, is going to do something to me.

The foreword by Stacey Abram’s was all I needed to know. Mentally preparing myself