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Time Quotes by 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…
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will…
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs…
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting…
- The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God…
- And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
- It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed…
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
- You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny,…
- Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God…
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
- I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
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