Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin