James Baldwin — "You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't, you die. Or you don't die…"

"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is soporific. I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuce, but I have often felt sleepy after listening to a lecture."

"When you're trying to destroy a human being, it's very important to tell him that he's a nigger."

"The world is full of people who are trying to find themselves."

"Children, especially, are very good at knowing what's going on, and they will not forgive you for lying to them."

"The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you've got to find your own way to live and nobody can tell you how."