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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
    —     James Baldwin
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2017 Stars Above
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2015 Leaving On A Mid-Night Train
2014 Questioned Faith
2013 At Home In Fire
2012 A Tale Of Two Books
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2011 Back At The Millstone
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If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class.  One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most – and listens to their testimony.
    —    James A. Baldwin
[This quote was found on one of the blogs I follow:  I didn’t have my glasses on….
Located at:  https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/
The specific post is located at:  https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2021/04/21/justice-begins/
Please visit the original site when you have a spare minute.    —    kmab]
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2012 Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
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2011 There Is No God, But God
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    —    James Baldwin
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2016 Sincerest Flattery
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2014 Ite, Missa Est
2013 I Hear Voices
2012 Positive Thoughts
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2011 Look! Up In The Sky…
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…Baldwin’s insight remains:  that, as we fight our evils, we must confront, without flinching, the history of this country that continues to shape who we are and limit who we can be.  In great pain and terror, we have to do this even as we bury our dead if we — and I mean all of us — are to be truly free.
    —    Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
From the article:  “Black and white America look to James Baldwin to unpin us all from history
Appearing in:  Time Magazine;  dtd:  29 August 2016, in the “Time Off” essay section
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2013 Beautiful Adventure
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I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.
    —    James Baldwin
From:  “Notes of a Native Son
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Not everything that is faced can be changed;  but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    —    James Baldwin
[What am I afraid to face?    —    kmab]
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
     —    James Baldwin
From:  “Notes of a Native Son
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2011 Saying Just Enough
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I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro;  neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt.
     —    James Baldwin
From his book:  “Notes of a Native Son
[Or in my case, American / Irish / Hispanic / employed / Catholic / etc…  And yes, I realize I remain a Catholic by choice and employed by necessity.    —    kmab]
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