Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
James A. BaldwinAny writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. BaldwinI conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
James A. BaldwinNo one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James A. BaldwinIt will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.
James A. Baldwin