Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhu… - James Baldwin

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

I am not a black nationalist but some of my best friends are...Why aren't I a black nationalist? Because I don't believe it is enough to be black-one has to be human as well. We did not struggle for four hundred years just to become like the white man". (1985)

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.