James Arthur Baldwin Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck — but, most of all, endurance.

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.

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