Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to contro

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Author: James Arthur Baldwin

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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity by definition is unassailable.

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.

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.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.