Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

So part of what he's saying, I know I'm going around in circles, he's saying that what white supremacy does, it not only causes all of this hell for me and how I have to raise my children and live my life, it is literally deforming and disfiguring the character of the people who embrace it.

And what he's warning us is not to fall into the trap because if it disfigures them, if we buy into its logic, it will disfigure us.

We can't release the trap, man.

But we also can't fall into this stuff of sentimentality either.

But anyway.

Jimmy.

You know, the first thing I would say is that fame is a motherfucker.

You know?

But I chose the photo, the image, for the cover precisely for this reason.

It comes from Sadat Beke's haunting and beautiful short film, From Another Place.

And he's sitting in an old tea house in Bebek, in Istanbul.

And in the film, he's surrounded by people, but his eyes betray the company.

He's looking elsewhere.

He's in a fragile place in that moment in his life, even though he's in the company of others.

Loneliness is his companion because he has to get his work done.

But I also say that we have to find our elsewheres.

That doesn't mean we have to retreat to some other country, but we certainly have to find communities of love, people who allow us to laugh full belly laughs.

to rage, to be quirky, to be ourselves without cost, that people who hold us to account.

We have to find the way to create the distance from the status quo so that we can develop resources to say no to the bride as it comes to us over and over again.

So we avoid not necessarily the existential condition of loneliness per se, because it is, how can I say this?