James Baldwin — "The people who are running this country are insane."

"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the moment of waking to the moment of sleep."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that c…"

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

"The future is now. It was now a long time ago. We are always living in the future."

"You can't live in this country and be a black man and not be angry."