James Baldwin Quotes

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.