More quotes by James Baldwin

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
"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."
"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."