Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
James A. BaldwinAt four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
James A. BaldwinAnd I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
James A. Baldwin