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James A. Baldwin: "Anak-anak lelaki ini, sekarang, hidup sebagaimana k...

"Anak-anak lelaki ini, sekarang, hidup sebagaimana kita hidup pada waktu itu, mereka tumbuh dengan tergesa-gesa dan kepala mereka tiba-tiba menabrak langit-langit rendah dari kemungkinan sebenarnya. Mereka dipenuhi amarah. Yang mereka tahu hanyalah dua kegelapan, kegelapan hidup mereka, yang sekarang mendekati mereka, dan kegelapan film, yang telah membutakan mereka terhadap kegelapan lain, dan di mana mereka sekarang, secara dendam, bermimpi, sekaligus lebih banyak bersama daripada saat-saat lainnya, dan lebih sendirian."

--- James A. Baldwin

Versi Bahasa Inggris

These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.