People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James A. BaldwinIt is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
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. BaldwinNo people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James A. Baldwin