Splendor in Absolute Desolation

“There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.”
― James Baldwin

“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
― James Baldwin

“The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
― James Baldwin

“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”
― James Baldwin