Quotes from Just Above My Head — James Baldwin
1924–1987 United States
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Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.
Just Above My Head (1979)
Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.
Just Above My Head (1979)
This may be why we appear to learn absolutely nothing from experience, or may, in other words, account for our incoherence: memory does not require that we reconstitute the event, but that we justify it.
Just Above My Head (1979)
It is not merely that the rain falls differently on each of you, for that can be a wonder and a joy: it is that what is rain for the one is not rain for the other.
Just Above My Head (1979)