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Among The Mysteries
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we will keep trying to slay them in the outer world. For all the darkness in the world stems from the darkness in the heart. And it is there we must do our work.
— Michelle Catherine
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In this country … if you’re an artist, you’re guilty of a crime: not that you’re aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don’t admit are there.
The terrible thing about being a writer is that you don’t decide to become one, you discover that you are one.
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I’ve ever wanted to do is tell that, I’m not trying to solve anybody’s problems, not even my own. I’m just trying to outline what the problems are.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven,
I want to be stretched, shook up, to overreach myself, and to make you feel that way too.
— James Baldwin
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