James A. Baldwin

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#challenge #future #moment #never #now

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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

— James A. Baldwin

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

— James A. Baldwin

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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