There was a sense that we were there to get things done very quickly, what James Baldwin had called America’s funny sense of time, as if with enough time and all that fearful energy and virtue you people have, everything will be settled, solved, put in its place.
Suzy Hansen
There was a sense that we were there to get things done very quickly, what James Baldwin had called America’s funny sense of time, as if with enough time and all that fearful energy and virtue you people have, everything will be settled, solved, put in its place.
Suzy Hansen (born 1978) is an American writer. Her book Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-America World was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.