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If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
5.0

god this was absolutely gutting. also deeply beautiful. baldwin at his absolute best.
i'm continually in awe of how he can produce such rich and complex stories about injustice and hatred and the bitter realities of carcerality, and at the end of it all, still uphold that love is the most radical work we can do.

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“He laughed. 'Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks are going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.”