“The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.” LifeFearRacismBigotrySuperiorityBeliefsAfrican AmericansRace RelationsInferiorityWhite People Book:The Fire Next Time Source: The Fire Next Time
“Fear and love cannot long remain in the same bed together. And how many nights I lay there, while Barbara slept, filled with an indescribable bewilderment; feeling that all that held me to life was being gnawed away, and feeling myself sink, like a weighted corpse, deeper and deeper in the sea of uncertainty.” LifeFear Author:James Baldwin
“You said once, he said, that you wanted to grow. Isn't that always frightening? Doesn't it always hurt?” LoveFearGrowth Book:Another Country Source: Another Country
“all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of the world, rose up like a wall between the world and me.” FearRace And Racism In AmericaTa Nehisi Coates Book:The Fire Next Time Source: The Fire Next Time