“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 must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently.”
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“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.”
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“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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