No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James A. BaldwinYou donโt have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
James A. BaldwinI think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
James A. BaldwinA person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.
James A. Baldwin