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@futacvlt.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 7:11 AM

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.... #JamesBaldwin #TheFireNextTime

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

@kronn.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 4:31 PM

This famous quote is from the 1963 book The Fire Next Time. Baldwin’s novel should be required 7th grade reading in all schools.

#TheFireNextTime
#JamesBaldwin

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