Quote by James Baldwin: “Not in my time, perhaps, but in the time of my children.”

Progress doesn't always arrive for the person who fought for it — sometimes you plant seeds you'll never see bloom. Believing in a better future even when you won't live to see it is a profound form of love and commitment to those who come after you.

Baldwin made this remark during his extensive writing on race in America in the early 1960s, a period of peak civil rights activity and intense violence against Black Americans in the South. Birmingham church bombings, voter suppression, and police brutality made the pace of change agonizingly slow for those living through it.

American novelist, essayist, and activist whose work examined race, sexuality, and identity in twentieth-century America with unsparing honesty. His 1963 work The Fire Next Time is considered one of the most important books in American literature.