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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