Derek Womble
Aug 29, 2017 · 1 min read

Love this sentence. To read Baldwin now, over 30 years after I first came across him, has been at times scary. It was almost as if he jumped into the future and saw what America would eventually become. And I can’t say enough about the scarred, fibrotic, keloid heart. An amazing use of words!

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