Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to  deny the fact of death….  
—James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
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