The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James A. BaldwinLove is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.
James A. BaldwinIf one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.
James A. BaldwinA person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.
James A. Baldwin