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

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

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

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

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so...

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

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

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of...

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

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

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

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

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

Love is creation raised to a higher degree

Love is creation raised to a higher degree

The only part of me I ever loved was the heart that you're in.

The only part of me I ever loved was the heart that you're in.

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in...

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in...

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more...

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more...

Beware: some liers tell the truth

Beware: some liers tell the truth