Tassara’s Reviews > The Fire Next Time > Status Update

"in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand — and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible."

"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

"If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him."

"The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass, and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can."

"I know how black it looks today, for you. It looked bad that day, too, yes, we were trembling. We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived."

Not sure I'm ready for Uncle James to wreck my shit... But I'm diving in anyway.