James A. Baldwin

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 A. Baldwin

#else #exactly #like #money #nothing

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

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 A. Baldwin

#does #effort #force #i #i think

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#conscious #country #rage #relatively #time

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#education #indoctrination #subjugation #white #you

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#done #interrupted #others #say #those

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#day #down #each #earth #go

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#people #them #trapped

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

— James A. Baldwin

#exalts #future #go #heaven #like