James Baldwin Quote

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.


Just Above My Head (ed. 1979)


Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do...

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do...

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do...

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do...