Creative Quotations from . . .
James Baldwin
(1924-1987) born on Aug 02
US "novelist, essayist". He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.
 
   
F
Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

R
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
A
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
N
I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
K
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
R: "A Dialogue (1973; with Nikki Giovanni), from a conversation, 4 Nov. 1971, in London."
A: ""The Price Of The Ticket," "The Devil Finds Work," sct. 1 (1985; first published 1976)."
N: "In "Famous Black Quotations," ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995."
K: ""The Price of the Ticket," "No Name in the Street," (1985; first published 1972)."
   



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