James A. Baldwin

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.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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

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 young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

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.

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.