“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” — James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire (May 1961)
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Quote of the Day
“The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.” — James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire (May 1961)
Quote of the Day
“The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it.” — James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire (May 1961)