Men and women Quote by James Baldwin

““I have been carried into precinct basements often enough, and I have seen and heard and endured the secrets of desperate white men and women, which they knew were safe with me, because even if I should speak, no one would believe me. And they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.””

James Baldwin

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“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt”

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“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?”

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“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.”

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“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.”

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“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

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“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

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