Quotes: Race (1).

Race 624 "…my father, who having taken his own conversion too literally, never, at bottom, forgave the white world…for having saddled him with a Christ in whom, to judge at least from their treatment of him, they themselves no longer believed." James Baldwin. “Stranger in the Village.” 1953. Gross, ed. Essays.

Race 626 "The black man insists…that the white man cease to regard him as an exotic rarity and recognize him as a human being." James Baldwin. “Stranger in the Village.” 1953. Gross, ed. Essays.

Race 627 "But I am not a stranger in America and the same syllable riding on the American air expresses the war my presence has occasioned in the American soil." James Baldwin. “Stranger in the Village.” 1953. Gross, ed. Essays.

Race 629 "For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans, so burning a question that it ultimately became one of those used to divide the nation…." James Baldwin. “Stranger in the Village.” 1953. Gross, ed. Essays.

Race 630 "The idea of white supremacy rests simply on the fact that white men are the creators of civilization (the present civilization, which is the only one that matters; all previous civilizations are simply ‘contributions’ to our own)…. " James Baldwin. “Stranger in the Village.” 1953. Gross, ed. Essays.