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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself. Read more at: minimalistquotes.com/james-a-baldwi… pic.twitter.com/PHrEF5440r

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“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means. You don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the wall, because you don’t want to know.” ― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

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“It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it.” ― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

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When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. Ezra Klein (Why We're Polarized)

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In response to the question “What is the definition of a black man, and his power?” Baldwin says, “I am a black man, if you will—I was darkened long ago by the sun; but that’s not what makes me ‘black.’ It’s the role I play in the world.” daily.jstor.org/feature-james-…

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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 pain. James A. BaldwinFavorite　"Me and My House". Harper's Magazine, November 1955. pic.twitter.com/5UUO7n0FsJ

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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/UAe4fgnt8U

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It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/NSiTYijXFT

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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. BaldwinFavorite　"No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972. pic.twitter.com/HkQLkTa6Aq

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The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/xyn59WwWsc

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. James A. BaldwinFavorite　"Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, November 17, 1962. pic.twitter.com/bSLeDSINbo

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People can cry much easier than they can change. James A. BaldwinFavorite　"James Baldwin Back Home" by Robert Coles, July 31, 1977. pic.twitter.com/zwjHFd6wos

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. James A. BaldwinFavorite　"Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961. pic.twitter.com/UdcSvBB3Co

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People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else.

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That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "ni**ers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" , July 1960. pic.twitter.com/XnRzerkH3z

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew,

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or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges. 1961. pic.twitter.com/jMXJnLIsoM

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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, January 1, 1962. pic.twitter.com/fjPwjHlYXR

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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/aQgkdmdfdN

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We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Ne*ro.

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The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/Cz74pspIeE

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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. James A. BaldwinFavorite "Biography / Personal Quotes". pic.twitter.com/8GAt7pFoKb

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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/iS0UtIne2f

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If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous. James A. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/ebkM8qYhTM

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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 and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. "Mamie Till's warning still holds true in a racist pic.twitter.com/KT7aVlhlTD

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To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it. Baldwin pic.twitter.com/sRaeiZtct9

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