If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Of course, I must say that I don’t think America is God’s gift to anybody—if it is, God’s days have got to be numbered.

it would take about a thousand years to try all the people in the American prisons, but the Americans are optimistic and still hope for time—and

“Where you lead me,” I said, “I’ll follow.” He laughed. “Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I’m going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.”