reading list

• The Fire Next Time
• No Name in the Street
• If Bill Street Could Talk

interviews

• James Baldwin — I'm writting for people, baby (Meeting the man) - YouTube
  • "Love has never been a popular movement, and no-one's ever wanted really to be free."
  • "The world is held together by the love and passion of a very few people."
• James Baldwin on Love - YouTube
  • What you see in the other person is you
    • Projection
  • Love is the only human possibility
    • It's terrifying
  • Giovanni's Room: what happens to you when you can't love anybody
    • You're dangerous
    • No way of learning humility
      • Suffering of other people
        • How to use suffering to get from one place to another
  • "I can't afford despair"
  • Breakdown of trail of social contract
    • Panic-stricken
      • Comforting with material things
        • Something is beginning to crack
        • Hoarding
        • Don't really believe in it
        • Don't have anything else
        • Would kill to get it
          • Moral bankruptcy