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Man Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
- I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
- The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
- 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…
- The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and…
- I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
- When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
- 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…
- No man is a devil in his own mind.
- In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,…
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- 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…
- I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
- 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…
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