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 A. BaldwinWe take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
James A. BaldwinOne day, to everyoneโs astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
James A. BaldwinThe trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
James A. Baldwin