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.

advertised the chewing gum which would help one to relax and keep smiling

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

who were held back from his condition by barriers as perishable as their dwindling cigarettes

They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak

Someone would look at him with horror, then turn back to his business with a long-drawn-out, pitying, Man