James Baldwin — "The great difficulty is to stay open to the possibility of change."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be political. You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be a human being."

"One can only face in others what one can face in oneself."

"It is not a question of how much you can love, but how much you can bear."

"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 c…"