There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
James A. BaldwinIt is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
James A. BaldwinLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. BaldwinIn order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.
James A. Baldwin