It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life -- without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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. BaldwinWhen human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
James A. Baldwin