Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
James A. BaldwinIt is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
James A. BaldwinAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. BaldwinAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
James A. Baldwin