Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James BaldwinPlease try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity
James BaldwinIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James BaldwinThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
James BaldwinFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
James BaldwinTags: inspirational
The American revolution, the terms are these: not that I drive you out or that you drive me out, but that we come together and embrace and learn to live together. That is the only way that we can have achieved the American revolution.
Now, if we can face this, it involves facing a great many things. It demands that white people face the fact that I, for example, or any black person they will ever meet or have ever met—I am not an exotic rarity. I am not a stranger. I am none of those things. On the contrary, for all you know, for all you know, I might be your uncle, your brother, your cousin, among other things. One of the things that has happened here—and the pathology of the Deep South proves it; so does the pathology of the North, which dictates to them that they move out and I move in—among other things which have to be excavated here is the fact that this long history is also the history of a love affair.
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James BaldwinTags: patriotism dissent protest
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 go down for the last, last time.
James BaldwinMost of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
James BaldwinTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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