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 really 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.


Collected Essays (ed. 1998)

James Baldwin Quotes

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...