You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.
James A. BaldwinI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James A. BaldwinThis is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
James A. BaldwinTo be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.
James A. Baldwin