James Baldwin

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin; "Stranger in the Village," Harper's (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)

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