“…I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. But the barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed.
There are so many things one would rather not know! We become social creatures because we cannot live any other way. But in order to become social, there are a great many other things that we must not become, and we are frightened, all of us, of these forces within us that perpetually menace our precarious security”.

— James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”, 1962
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“…I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. But the barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed.
There are so many things one would rather not know! We become social creatures because we cannot live any other way. But in order to become social, there are a great many other things that we must not become, and we are frightened, all of us, of these forces within us that perpetually menace our precarious security”.

— James Baldwin, “The Creative Process”, 1962
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#JamesBaldwin #Baldwin #Poets #RidgePress #BlackArt #BlackArtists #BlackWriters #BlackScholars #QueerWriters #QueerBlackWriters #QueerBIPOCWriters