jamesbaldwin on love , the illusionofchoice , & the paradoxoffreedom /BY MARIA POPOVA
...James Baldwin (August 2, 1924–December 1, 1987) was a young man — young and brilliant and aflame with life, blazing against society’s illusion of stability and control — when he composed his stunning semi-autobiographical novel Giovanni’s Room, making the paradox of freedom its animating theme ...
"People who believe that they are strongwilled and the mastersoftheirdestiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in selfdeception . Their decisions are not really decisions at all — a real decision makes one humble , one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named — but elaborate systems of evasion , of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not."
..."You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all."
(a centraltheme of killingjustice as well)...
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