The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin