James A. Baldwin
  • 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.

  • The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.