Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Bearing witness

I am a witness.
In the church in which I was raised
you were supposed to bear witness to the truth.
Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is,
but you do know what a lie is.

James Baldwin, New York Times interview, 1984





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