Quote by James Baldwin (1924-1987)

• You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

• The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

• Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

• Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

• Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.