James Baldwin — "If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are."

"It is a great shock to discover that the world, which one always thought of as an adult world, is not adult at all; it is a world of children, all of whom are playing very complicated games, which the…"

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"The precisely articulated lie is more dangerous than the blatant one."

"I think the great problem in America is that we've never been able to face the fact that we were founded on a lie."

"The great difficulty is that the American people are not, and do not want to be, aware of the nature of the crisis."