"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
James A. Baldwin

"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
James A. Baldwin

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."
James A. Baldwin

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James A. Baldwin