John Shaw

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker