A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.
James A. BaldwinThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. BaldwinThe great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.
James A. BaldwinThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James A. Baldwin