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Black Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
- The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and…
- The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
- Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of…
- I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of…
- To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
- An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man…
- For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be…
- America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same…
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- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
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