The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin
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He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin
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