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A review by hey_jupiter
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
challenging
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
5.0
A short read with necessity and charge behind every single word.
Favorite Quotes:
"Here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world."
"Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations."
"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread."
"Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time."
"One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself--that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving."
"Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go."
"If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne."
"I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand."
Favorite Quotes:
"Here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world."
"Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations."
"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread."
"Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time."
"One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself--that is to say, risking oneself. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving."
"Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go."
"If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it brings must be borne."
"I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand."