A Dialogue Quotes

“What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. You become a collaborator, an accomplice to your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do.”
― James Baldwin, A Dialogue

“It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily, to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion.”
― James Baldwin, A Dialogue

“People invent categories in order to feel safe. White people invented black people to give white people identity. […] Straight cats invent faggots so they can sleep with them without becoming faggots themselves.”
― James Baldwin, A Dialogue

“And it's a little difficult, but it's very valuable to be forced to move from one place to another and deal with another set of situations and to accept that this is going to be -- in fact, it is -- your life.”
― James Baldwin, A Dialogue

“White people invented black people to give white people identity…straight cats invented faggots so they can sleep with them without becoming faggots themselves.”
― James Baldwin, A Dialogue