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> [“from across the room, she caught a supportive, conspiratorial wink from James Baldwin and felt, for a moment, seen and known by sparkling brilliance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/from-across-the-room-she-caught-a-supportive-conspiratorial-wink-from/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

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## Other authors on James Baldwin

## More by Cynthia Bond

> [“Lord child you ain't nothing but a doorway. How many haints you count at your heels?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/lord-child-you-ain-t-nothing-but-a-doorway-how-many-haints-you-count/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“If you brave enough to live it, the least I can do is listen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/if-you-brave-enough-to-live-it-the-least-i-can-do-is-listen/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/those-yellow-eyes-had-seen-the-thing-ruby-hid-even-from-herself-and/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/your-daddy-and-me-named-you-otha-it-means-wealth-you-were-your-daddy/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“Hope was a dangerous thing, something best squashed before it became contagious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/hope-was-a-dangerous-thing-something-best-squashed-before-it-became/)

[Cynthia bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“from across the room, she caught a supportive, conspiratorial wink from James Baldwin and felt, for a moment, seen and known by sparkling brilliance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/from-across-the-room-she-caught-a-supportive-conspiratorial-wink-from/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“It was the burden God had decided to fit upon their shoulders. That and their mother having a new home from that day forward-Dearing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/it-was-the-burden-god-had-decided-to-fit-upon-their-shoulders-that/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“I T WAS the wrong Liberty. One hundred and four miles south- west from its Colored namesake, Liberty Township.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/i-t-was-the-wrong-liberty-one-hundred-and-four-miles-south-west-from/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

> [“Ruby would never have discovered Page Three and Abby, had it not been for the ease of older women.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cynthia-bond/ruby-would-never-have-discovered-page-three-and-abby-had-it-not-been/)

[Cynthia Bond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cynthia-bond/)

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