My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

Notes of a Native Son

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Baldwin, James. "Me and My House." Harper's Magazine, Nov. 1955.

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Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

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A quote by James Baldwin about effects of racism: “My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people…”

A quote by James Baldwin about effects of racism: “My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people…”

A quote by James Baldwin about effects of racism: “My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people…”