Mrs. Ramsay’s words in To the Lighthouse: “Everything seemed possible. Everything seemed right….Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.” — 11: 163-164
up in the mountains. And so Baldwin, who was — 13: 181-181
I am not an interloper when I look at a Rembrandt portrait. I care for them more than some white people do, just as some white people care more for aspects of African art than I do. I can oppose white supremacy and still rejoice in Gothic architecture. In this, I stand with Ralph Ellison: “The values of my own people are neither ‘white’ nor ‘black,’ they are American. Nor can I see how they could be anything else, since we are people who are involved in the texture of the American experience.” — 19: 284-288