For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
—James Baldwin
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
—James Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
—James Baldwin
Topics: Children, Listening, Example, Society
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
—James Baldwin
Topics: Love
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 Baldwin
Topics: Forgiveness, Challenges, Time, Present, The Present, Future
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
—James Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
—James Baldwin
Topics: Education
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