"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"It is precisely this black-white experience which may prove of indispensable value to us in the world we face today. The world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and now we cannot live within."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)