Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James Baldwin Read Quote
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 Baldwin Read Quote
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin Read Quote
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 Baldwin Read Quote
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin Read Quote
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James Baldwin Read Quote
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 Baldwin Read Quote
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 Baldwin Read Quote
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. James Baldwin Read Quote