It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin