Baldwin Quotes
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us
It’s nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn’t trapped in a hovering prison in the men’s bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.
To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it