Author: James A. Baldwin

Quotes

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

- James A. Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

- James A. Baldwin

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

- James A. 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 a growing up.

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.

- James A. Baldwin

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

- James A. Baldwin

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

- James A. Baldwin

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

- James A. Baldwin

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

- James A. Baldwin

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.

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 A. Baldwin

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