And I don't mean to romanticize suffering, but that person who can never suffer, can never grow up.
That man who has to snatch his manhood out of the fires of human cruelty that rage to destroy it every day learns something about himself in the process that no school and no church on earth can teach.
And that is the sense of his own authority, and that is unshakable. Because in order to save his life, he has to constantly figure out the meaning behind the words. When a person is constantly having to survive the worst that life can bring, they cease to be afraid of the worst that life can bring.
--James Baldwin
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