- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. - James Baldwin, 1962
- One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. - James Baldwin, 1962
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. - James Baldwin, 1962
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James Baldwin, 1984
- When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone. - Florence Ballard, 1966
- If I weren't earning more than $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. - Charles Barkley, 1993
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