Little Man, Little Man Quotes

“If he can’t see out them, how she going to see out them? And she older than he is. She eight years old. She ought know better. But she a girl.”
― James Baldwin, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

“child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance, and enter a limbo in which he will no longer be black, and in which he knows he can never become white. Black people have lost too many children that way.6”
― James Baldwin, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood