James A. Baldwin

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.