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Notes of a Native Son
These were the moments when I was reminded that no matter how passively I engaged with my Blackness, it was never not a force at work in my life. And, I found, the knowledge of my Blackness could be used as a weapon against me at any moment.
R. Eric Thomas • Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
James Baldwin - The Struggle of The Artist (1969)
youtu.beJames Baldwin wrote, “It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin reflected in his finest interview, “but then you read.”
Being a Black American requires double consciousness, in the words of W. E. B. Du Bois, the habit of seeing from inside the logic of race and the lives of the racialized, and from the external superego of what it means to be American, with all its archetypes and interests.