James A. Baldwin
  • Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

  • 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.

  • Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

  • Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  • 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.