Baldwin located salvation in embracing vulnerability with others.

Evidence

We can’t hide behind the mask either. We have to run toward the trouble that makes us afraid of life. We have to choose life, Baldwin repeatedly said. Salvation is found there: in accepting the beauty and ugliness of who we are in our most vulnerable moments in communion with each other. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 607

Categorization

• XREF: ‘We have to run toward the trouble’ ties directly to the reader’s key thesis: late Baldwin as the essential voice — and to the book’s own argument about the after times.