the deadliest weapon was charm

I am not your negro

A "radical examination of race in America" here. Baldwin said he left America for Paris with only $40 in his pocket to roam the streets as he couldn't do any worse than the USA with all the racism.

“Tell me anyway. Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”

“Life is not an easy matter ... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” 

― Leon Trotsky [1875-1940], Diary in Exile, 1935