“Perhaps the turning point in one's life is realizing that to be treated like a victim is not necessarily to become one.”— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin, 1984 interviewShare
“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
“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”— EpictetusShare
“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”— Marcus AureliusShare
“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”— AristotleShare
“We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”— C.S. LewisShare
“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”— Friedrich NietzscheShare
