To accept oneโs past โ oneโs history โ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
James A. BaldwinTo ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
James A. BaldwinYou write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
James A. BaldwinYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
James A. Baldwin