James A. Baldwin

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the…

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…

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

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James A. Baldwin

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

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.…

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James A. Baldwin

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

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the…

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