The fact that their {the flower children's} uniforms and their jargons precisely represented the distances they had yet to cover before arriving at that maturity which makes love possible-or no longer possible-could not be considered their fault. They had been born into a society in which nothing was harder to achieve, in which perhaps nothing was more scorned and feared than the idea of the soul's maturity.
( James Baldwin )
[ No Name in the Street ]
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