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James A. Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James A. Baldwin
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James A. 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 A. Baldwin
There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James A. Baldwin
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin
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.
James A. Baldwin
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James A. Baldwin
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.