James A. Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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

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.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

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

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.

People can cry much easier than they can change.