The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero
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The Strength to Remember and the Strength to Forget: James Baldwin on What Makes a Hero
“Let everything happen to you,” wrote Rilke, “Beauty and terror.” It is not easy, this simple surrender. The courage and vulnerability it takes make it nothing less than an act of heroism. Most of our cowardices and cruelties, most of the suffering we endure and inflict, stem from what we are unwilling to feel, and there is nothing we cower from and rage against more than our own incoherence — that intolerable tension between the poles of our ca…
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