It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
James A. BaldwinI've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
James A. BaldwinWomen manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being defined by others. They dismiss the definition, however dangerous or wounding it may be-- or even, sometimes, find a way to utilize it.
James A. Baldwin