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.

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.’

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