You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in... - James Baldwin

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

"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 connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."