People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
James A. BaldwinI conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
James A. BaldwinThere exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.
James A. BaldwinI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James A. Baldwin