a boy, a man struggle

a boy 

"In America I was free only in battle, never free to rest. And he who finds nowhere to rest, cannot long survive the battle." ~ James Baldwin 

drawing of James Baldwin.

"And the young white revolutionary remains in general far more romantic than a black one. White people have managed to get through entire lifetimes in this euphoric state. But black people have not been so lucky. A black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot but a raving maniac. The truth is, that this country does not know what to do with its black population, dreaming of anything like the Final Solution." ~ James Baldwin