Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.
I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience. - James A. Baldwin
I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
- James A. Baldwin
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. - James A. Baldwin
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. - James A. Baldwin
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble. - James A. Baldwin
You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pai… - James A. Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pai…
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world! - James A. Baldwin
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. - James A. Baldwin
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do. - James A. Baldwin
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally … - James A. Baldwin
The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally …
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