People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after tha… - James Baldwin

"There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive."

I am not a black nationalist but some of my best friends are...Why aren't I a black nationalist? Because I don't believe it is enough to be black-one has to be human as well. We did not struggle for four hundred years just to become like the white man". (1985)

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.