James A. Baldwin Quotes - Page 16

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• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

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  Girl, Boys, Maturity

  "The Harlem Ghetto" by James A. Baldwin in "Commentary", February 1948, republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son", 1955.

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• People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Hands, Roots

  "Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. April 9, 1967.

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• Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

  James A. Baldwin

  Death, Institutions, Cases

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• In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

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  Animal, Harlem, Invincible

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• Employment is my right my destiny.

  James A. Baldwin

  Destiny, Employment, My Destiny

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