"Going to Meet the Man" Quotes
"Going to Meet the Man" by James Baldwin is a powerful exploration of racial violence and personal trauma in the American South through interconnected stories that reveal the complexities of identity and oppression.
short stories | 249 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
He was always looking for something to do. And when he found something to do, he always wanted to do something else.
He was ashamed to find that he wanted to cry, as he always did when he was happy.
He was filled with a vast sense of sorrow and of longing for something that he had never had and could not name.
He wanted to say something, to say anything, to make her laugh, make her forget.
It was, it seemed to him, the most natural thing in the world to want to help, to make somebody feel better.
He wanted to tell her that he loved her, but he could not find the words, and love seemed to him a very distant and unlikely thing.
The memory of her laughter filled him with a vast and aching tenderness.
He was filled with a sudden and intense longing for something he had never had and could not name.
He was filled with a strange and aching sense of loss. He felt that he was losing everything that he had ever had, or ever could have.
He felt a vast sense of relief, as if he had been released from some intolerable burden.
