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 write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
James A. BaldwinIf we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
James A. Baldwin