“I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.”
Positive
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
ChangeAll Quotes by 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.”
Education“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.”
Future“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.”
Failure“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
Money“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.”
Experience“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”
Love“The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.”
Future“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.”
Love“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
Truth“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
History“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.”
Hope“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
Relationship“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
Power“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
Fear“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.”
Men“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
Knowledge“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
Change“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
Time“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”
Education