"We cannot discuss the state of our minorities……" — James A. Baldwin
"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 Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real."
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James A. Baldwin
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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