We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.
James A. BaldwinIt is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James A. BaldwinIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
James A. BaldwinIt is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
James A. Baldwin