James Arthur Baldwin Quotes
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~ 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. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
~ 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 Arthur Baldwin
~ Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
~ 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 Arthur Baldwin
~ Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
~ The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
~ Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
~ 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. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
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