Jordan Clark

“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

“One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
― Toni Morrison

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin