Author: James A. Baldwin

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

- James A. Baldwin

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

- James A. Baldwin

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

- 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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