- People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. - James Baldwin, 1961
- The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin, 1961
- No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. - James Baldwin
- 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 effort of loving to the making of bread. - James Baldwin, 1962
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. - James Baldwin, 1962
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. - James Baldwin, 1962
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