To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
James A. BaldwinThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James A. BaldwinA civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
James A. BaldwinI think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
James A. Baldwin