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Quotes by James A Baldwin
- The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- 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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
- 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.
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
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