John Stewart

“You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.”
― James Baldwin

“When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.”
― James Baldwin

“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”
― James Baldwin

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
― James Baldwin