Home » Quote » James Baldwin » „The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.“ „The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.“ — James Baldwin Tags:World Related quotes „We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.“ — Jr. „I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.“ — Rosa Parks „If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.“ — Jr. „There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.“ — Leonard Ravenhill
„The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.“ — James Baldwin Tags:World