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  1. Cornel West _ Black Prophetic Fire

    There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm {X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class {black} leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
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  2. James Baldwin _ Notes of a Native Son

    At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself.
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  3. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and will not be today and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.
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  4. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that must accept . The terrible thing, old buddy, is that must accept And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know."
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