Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know …

James A. Baldwin
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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. ✨ Letter from a Region in My Mind by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
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