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Quotation by James Baldwin
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A Dialogue (1973)"A Question of Identity" Partisan Review (New Brunswick, New Jersey, July/August 1954)"A Talk To Teachers" published in The Price of the Ticket (1985)"A Talk to Teachers," Oct. 16, 1963 The Price of the Ticket (1985)"Autobiographical Notes" Notes of a Native Son (1955)
When you're called a nigger you look at your father because you think your father can rule the world—every kid thinks that—and then you discover that your father cannot do anything about it. So you begin to despise your father and you realize, oh, that's what a nigger is.
James Baldwin (1924–1987), U.S. author, and Nikki Giovanni. A Dialogue (1973).
From a conversation, November 4, 1971, in London.
From a conversation, November 4, 1971, in London.
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