Dayshawn Louden

“The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity, for the health of their souls, and must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time