Generations of paint flake off the walls, and the sunlight, which reveals every stain and crack, does not deign to enter the rooms: some of which are shuttered, to the extent, that is, that the shutters hold.
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The only certainty, to restate Baldwin, is that nothing can be changed if it is not confronted. By showing up and not retreating, by engaging and not dissociating, by searching for and not giving up on one another, we give ourselves and the generations to come the best chance of living with - instead of being lived by - our trauma. History cannot be overcome but, instead of carrying it on our backs, labouring under it, we can learn to walk beside it.
But itās something, when you think about it, how many babies were brought into those places, with rats as big as cats, roaches the size of mice, splinters the size of a manās finger, and somehow survived it. You donāt want to think about those who didnāt; and, to tell the truth, thereās always something very sad in those who did, or do.
seen of slave-ships. Of course, they hadnāt had newspapers on the slave-ships, hadnāt needed them yet; but, as concerned space (and also, perhaps, as concerned intention) the principle was exactly the same.
They donāt tell us because, if things go wrong, we canāt be accused of being accomplices. We cannot penetrate their silence, we must not try. Each of these men (and these men multiply with every hour) would gladly go to jail, blow away a pig, or blow up a city, to save their progeny from the jaws of this democratic hell.
He is young, very, very young, but also very old; but not old in the way that she had expected him to be. She had expected the age of corruption.