I find them both interesting, it sounds like they had really unusual formative experiences that forced them to self-author (the way a lot people sadly just don't) and it makes them both really interesting cultural commentators.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
27 Feb 2023, 4:34 pm
