James Baldwin

And she carried him, as the sea will carry a boat: with a slow, rocking and rising and falling motion, barely suggestive of the violence of the deep.

The first such truth is that the mind is not the possession of man alone.

that we are able to get real knowledge about the mind.

this is the fact that minds vary much in different individuals, or classes of individuals

mental diseases teach us much about the normal mind.

And what did he know about them really, except that they were ashamed of him? They didn’t know that he was real. It seemed that they didn’t, for that matter, know that they were real, but he was insufficiently simple to find this notion comforting.

You said once,’ he said, ‘that you wanted to grow. Isn’t that always frightening? Doesn’t it always hurt?’

It doesn’t do any good to blame the people or the time – one is oneself all those people. We are the time.’

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Entirely alone, and dying of it, he was part of an unprecedented multitude