“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”— James Baldwin, "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy," Esquire, 1961Share
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James BaldwinShare
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”— James BaldwinShare
“Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”— James BaldwinShare
“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”— Khalil GibranShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”— Charles DickensShare
“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”— John MiltonShare
