The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.James Baldwin
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
Poet and philosopher · 1877 – 1938
Philosopher, poet and politician of British India, writing in Persian and Urdu. His ideas inspired the Pakistan movement and his poetry is revered across South Asia.
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