You donโt have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
James A. Baldwin