Blue Heron Blast: Happy birthday, James Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

Quotes

...If an employer thinks that Scorpios make bad employees, the employer can refuse to hire Scorpios. Justice Alito

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Neal Stephenson

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

The virus makes the timeline, we don't make the timeline. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. Abraham Maslow

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. Robert A. Heinlein

Blue Heron Blast

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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Happy birthday, James Baldwin

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