person:personality https://twitter.com/telushk/status/1258162224780189698

i hope this come across as absolutely about the *personality* than the inimitable genius of Baldwin; this clip is what so many people said he was like most of the time—furious, eloquent, inebriated, incisive, and fragile: I see myself in so much of that.

which is to say, I see so much of how raw, honestly, and directly I feel the world in how Baldwin expresses himself. Luckily, I manage to do this without also loving white men for Christ’s sake.