James A. Baldwin Quotes

"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."