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And he spent his whole life longing to be picked up and sheltered by what he thought of as the power of love in arms stronger than his own.
James Baldwin:
The Price of the Ticket,
that if his mother was “ugly,” then even “ugliness” could be beautiful.
Children believe what their parents tell them, and oppressed minorities constantly face the danger of believing the myths attached to them by their oppressors.
“something about the terror and the loneliness and the depth and the height of love.”
The love he witnessed between them had helped him to appreciate the depth and the joy of love in his own life.
writing. For him “writing was an act of love … an attempt—not to get the world’s attention—[but] … to be loved.”
He had already realized his alienation from American society as a black; he now experienced a sexual alienation.
His stepfather’s frequent references to his ugliness and his own confrontations with prejudice had led him to associate that ugliness with his race.
