Alex Burger

“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society.” 

 

–James Baldwin

“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”

–James Baldwin

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle. Love is a war. Love is growing up.”

–James Baldwin

“People can cry much easier than they can change.”

–James Baldwin

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

–James Baldwin

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

–James Baldwin

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

–James Baldwin

“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

–James Baldwin

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

–Aldous Huxley