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  • Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.