James Baldwin, Vintage Books, 1974
“It says a lot about this country, because, of course, if all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.”
” . . . in the evening, just before everyone is locked up again, he looks at the others, he listens: what have they done? Not much. To do much is to have the power to place these people where they are, and keep them where they are. These captive men are the hidden price for a hidden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned. To do much is to have the power and the necessity to dictate to the damned.”
the Books that Bind 