There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – 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
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin