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White Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- 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 real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
- 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…
- 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…
- I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The…
- The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
- 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…
- Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
- This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
- 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…
- White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
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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. 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
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac