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James A. Baldwin

" Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. "

James A. Baldwin

People , Race , Hope

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" 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. "

James A. Baldwin

Possibility , Love , Question , Soul , Surrender

" You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. "

James A. Baldwin

World

" When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. "

James A. Baldwin

Living

" When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. "

James A. Baldwin

Man , Thinking , Action , Order

" Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. "

James A. Baldwin

World

" 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. "

James A. Baldwin

Respect , Present , Force , Effort

" To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. "

James A. Baldwin

Country , Time

" To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. "

James A. Baldwin

Danger

" Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. "

James A. Baldwin

Danger

" 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

Will , Work , Time , Future , Now , Challenge , Salvation

" 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

Man , Nothing , Attention , Help

" 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

Want , Time , Greed , Sense , Writer

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