Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin