Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James A. BaldwinThe American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James A. BaldwinMoney, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James A. BaldwinPerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death - ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
James A. Baldwin