My Dungeon Shook

"...here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. Remember that: i know how black it looks today, for you. It looked bad that day, too, yes, we were trembling. We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived.

And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children." -James Baldwin