All James A. Baldwin Quotes
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James A. Baldwin
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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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.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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