James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name Quotes
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.