James A. Baldwin Quotes About War
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.
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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.
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