There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. BaldwinThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James A. BaldwinThese boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.
James A. BaldwinFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
James A. Baldwin