James Baldwin’s outlines and doodles
From Jillian Hess’s Noted, a Substack devoted to notebooks and note-taking.
“The key to this disorder”
A passage from Giovanni’s Room.
Sisyphus in Harlem
From Go Tell It on the Mountain.
“Every corner, angle, crevice”
From Go Tell It on the Mountain.
“What we make happen”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
“Somewhere in time”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
“She was Sanctified holy”
From James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
“The burden is reality”
James Baldwin on what makes achieving a revolution different from overthrowing a dictator or repelling an invader.
Words from James Baldwin
"Life is tragic"