A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
James A. BaldwinOne writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
James A. BaldwinAn identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James A. Baldwin