People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some peopleโs stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.
James A. BaldwinThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. BaldwinThe face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. BaldwinThe real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
James A. Baldwin