#eve

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 A. Baldwin

#challenge #future #moment #never #now

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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#boy #consider #disease #does #everybody

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#always #believed #i #just #negative

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#exalts #future #go #heaven #like

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#divine #former #human #latter #never

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#control #describing #every #function #language

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#anything #done #else #everything #falls

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. ↗

— James Baldwin

#deeds #denied #even #experience #finding

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#believe #courage #experience #first #me