Gabrielle Goliath, Beloved (James), 2024, oil stick & chalk pastel on paper, 101cm x 70.5cm
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James Baldwin (1924-1987), author
”Yes, their parts were all cut off, they were dishonored, their very names were nothing more than dust blown disdainfully across the field of time - to fall where, to blossom where, bringing forth what fruit hereafter, where? - their very names were not their own. Behind them was the darkness, nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness.”
Go Tell it on the Mountain, 1953