The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin
Be careful what you set your heart upon — for it will surely be yours. – James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin
Be careful what you set your heart upon — for it will surely be yours. – 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
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. – James Baldwin