More quotes by James Baldwin

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
"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."