The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
James A. BaldwinI think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.
James A. BaldwinThe trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
James A. BaldwinIf the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin