If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such
If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to see in the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted, what gift would give them the gift to be gifted? The giver is no less adrift than those who are clamouring for the gift.— from The Giver by James Baldwin Happy Birthday to James Baldwin ! Photo: 1/30/1963, New York, NY. James Baldwin on his bed in his New York apartment to jot down some notes. Photograph by Bettmann / Corbis—Guadalupe Rosales (of @veteranas_and_rucas And @map_pointz) http://ift.tt/2uWrspe -- source link