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“People pay for what they do…” ― James Baldwin But not always the right people. UPDATE (2:37 A.M): It turns out that the DeKalb County officer who was shot in the leg on Monday night had responded to the wrong home after receiving a call to the 1500 block of...
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“I must believe, I must believe, that the heavy grace of God, which has brought me to this point, is all that can carry me out of it.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room The grace of God and a can of whoop ass — Serena opened it, delivered it: point,...
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“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,’ Jacques said. And then, ‘I wonder why.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Monday morning, just before 8 o’clock, Sonja Wells Raine of Moss Point, Miss. was shot and killed by her husband at her workplace, a WIC office she managed in...
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“I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.” ― James Baldwin This is the grooviest idea ever. Since weed is legal in Oregon, John Elledge and Whitney Alexander opted for a weed tent at their August 8 wedding. “On private property where no liquor license is involved, it is...
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“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
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“Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope—in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see...
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“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has...
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“Yet it is only when one is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream one has long cherished, or a privilege one has long possessed, that one is set free…that one has set oneself free, for higher dreams, for greater privileges.” ― James Baldwin And THIS is...
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“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” ― James Baldwin The Frank Murphy Hall of Justice courtroom in Detroit, MI doubled as a...
“People pay for what they do…” ― James Baldwin But not always the right people. UPDATE (2:37 A.M): It turns out that the DeKalb County officer who was shot in the leg on Monday night had responded to the wrong home after receiving a call to the 1500 block of...
“I must believe, I must believe, that the heavy grace of God, which has brought me to this point, is all that can carry me out of it.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room The grace of God and a can of whoop ass — Serena opened it, delivered it: point,...
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,’ Jacques said. And then, ‘I wonder why.” ― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room Monday morning, just before 8 o’clock, Sonja Wells Raine of Moss Point, Miss. was shot and killed by her husband at her workplace, a WIC office she managed in...
“I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.” ― James Baldwin This is the grooviest idea ever. Since weed is legal in Oregon, John Elledge and Whitney Alexander opted for a weed tent at their August 8 wedding. “On private property where no liquor license is involved, it is...
“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” ― James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 Sudden death is a mother, I don’t care where it lands. Shannon J. Miles, 30, is in custody in Texas on...
“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not know what he has done to merit it. And when he realizes that the treatment accorded him has nothing to do with anything he has...
“Yet it is only when one is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream one has long cherished, or a privilege one has long possessed, that one is set free…that one has set oneself free, for higher dreams, for greater privileges.” ― James Baldwin And THIS is...