“ Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. ”
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.
~ James Baldwin
That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me, and drove me into the church.
Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.
...all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me...
