Love is what humans need most and fear most

Evidence

If only [people] could trust that “thing,” they would be less afraid of being touched, less afraid of loving each other, less afraid of being changed by each other. Life would be different. Our children would not be the victims that they are now, we would not be either. But for some reason love is the most frightful thing; something that the human being is most in need of and dreads most. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 323

Categorization

• DEFINE: The late-Baldwin 1969 interview restating his love ethic amid Black Power — evidence that love, not rage, anchors his politics.
• XREF: connects to: The need for affection can make a girl fear growing up. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 740