James Baldwin Quote

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.


Early Novels and Stories (ed. 1998)


It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.