An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James A. BaldwinAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. BaldwinWhen youโre writing, youโre trying to find out something which you donโt know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you donโt want to know, what you donโt want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
James A. BaldwinThe occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.
James A. Baldwin