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Devastating and brilliant. Highly recommend.
It is so simple a fact and one that is so hard, apparently, to grasp: Whoever debases others is debasing himself.


Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Yes. A MUST read.
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this book is one of my favorites. i read it when i was about 15 and there are some things that just always stuck with me, but started to make more & more sense as i got older. reading this was inspiring, validating, and refreshing. it felt like a comfort book.. but one that frustrates you just a little bit. it’s so validating to read something older that still resonates so much - but it’s also frustrating that it’s still relevant in so many hurtful and heavy ways. baldwin’s words will continue to stick with me. i love the ending so much too, the reference of a biblical recreation of an enslaved person - “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!”

Best nonfiction I’ve read yet. 
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Absolutely stunning. Should be required reading.