James Baldwin

Via The Marginalian, taken from a Village Voice interview between Baldwin and Richard Goldstein:

“When Goldstein asks what advice he might have for people about to come out, Baldwin answers:

‘Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said 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. That’s the only advice you can give anybody. And it’s not advice, it’s an observation.’”