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• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
  -- James Baldwi...
• The paradox of education is precisely this --that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
  -- James Baldwi...
• You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
  -- James Baldwi...
• It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. -- Anatole France (1844-1924) It's only by amusing oneself that one can learn.
  -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newma...
• The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
  -- James Baldwi...
• The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
  -- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name", 1961...