quotes that jumped out at me

I told him I’d been raised a Pentecostal but mellowed into Methodism as an adult.

Who me?

James Baldwin said being black in America is like walking around with a pebble in your shoe. Sometimes it scarcely registers and sometimes it shifts and becomes uncomfortable and sometimes it can even serve as a kind of Buddhist mindfulness bell, keeping you present, making you pay attention.

It sounds like a good metaphor to me.

Quotes from Kim McLarin, writing for The New York Times.