"heroes are rare"

“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden…. I wonder why. …. Perhaps life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or; it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.” 

-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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2 Comments

  1. billy

    What the Hell??? since when was ok for you to read james baldwin???? I was reading baldwin while you were in diapers!!!!!! besides your not even black. And in retort to your most obvious rebuttal, I know im not black, but I almost minored in African American Theatre at UCLA. What the Hell??

  2. Jina

    You are precious! I totally read that book too!

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