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.
From James A. Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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