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@djp1974.bsky.socialThe moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
@djp1974.bsky.social#JAMESBALDWIN ON SAYING YES TO LIFE
"One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places. For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
@zinniaiowa.bsky.socialA serene space for reading is essential.
This afternoon, I’m returning to James Baldwin with "Giovanni’s Room"—a work that was controversial in its time.
It raises an inevitable question: how much has American society really changed?
@candiceberken.bsky.social
@rajannaidu.bsky.socialThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.
- #JamesBaldwin
@soopamario.bsky.socialExcerpt from #jamesbaldwin ‘s Open Letter to the Born Again, 1979
@kronn.bsky.socialThis famous quote is from the 1963 book The Fire Next Time. Baldwin’s novel should be required 7th grade reading in all schools.