When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible.
James A. BaldwinNo one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James A. BaldwinIt seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
James A. Baldwin