James Baldwin Quotes

I Was Just As Black As I Had Been The Day That I Was Born. Therefore, When I Faced A Congregation, It Began To Take All The Strength I Had Not To Stammer, Not To Curse, Not To Tell Them To Throw Away Their Bibles And Get Off Their Knees And Go Home And Organize, For Example, A Rent Strike. When I Watched All The Children, Their Copper, Brown, And Beige Faces Staring Up At Me As I Taught Sunday School, I Felt That I Was Committing A Crime In Talking About The Gentle Jesus, In Telling Them To Reconcile Themselves To Their Misery On Earth In Order To Gain The Crown Of Eternal Life. Were Only Negroes To Gain This Crown? Was Heaven, Then, To Be Merely Another Ghetto?

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