Children have never been very good at listening to their eld... - James Baldwin

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

"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."

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."