James Baldwin Quotes
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
Baldwin, James. The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985. St. Martin's/Marek, 1985.
Hitti was describing the Arabs but the principle would apply to almost any people. See {585931} for a political expression of this principle. Also {594723}, {607508} and {605259}.
See Otis Singletary and Eddie Bernice Johnson for similar, earlier views.
This had been a principle of Sociology since. It is conceptually similar to political quotations such as {585931}.
He is one of the later people to express this idea but at the time, most political pundits and politicians were unaware of most of the others. See related quotes.
James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer. He garnered acclaim for his work across several mediums, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005. His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, was published in 1955.
