I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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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
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. Baldwin
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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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.
James A. Baldwin
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