If Beale Street Could Talk

by James Baldwin

Daddy didn’t see any point in running after the Lord and he didn’t seem to have very much respect for him.

I think she’s a beautiful woman. She may not be beautiful to look at—whatever the fuck that means, in this kingdom of the blind.

That God these people say they serve—and do serve, in ways that they don’t know—has got a very nasty sense of humor. Like you’d beat the shit out of Him, if He was a man. Or: if you were.