Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. – James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. – 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
So Ive seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody elses airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasnt in – 21 years ago, then Id think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that Id like to fly on. – Richard Branson