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“It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“We don’t know enough about ourselves. I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that’s why so many people are so lost.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“...the key to illusion is complicity. The world sees what it wishes to see: it does not wish to see who, or what, or why you are.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“The world sees what it wishes to see, or, when the chips are down, what you tell it to see: it does not wish to see who, or what, or why you are.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“The dream of safety dies hard.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“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. 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.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

“i survive on intimacy & tomorrow/”
― Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf