Maxioms by James Baldwin
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.