Black Like Me
“Racist Sins of Christians” was first published in 1963 by Sign magazine
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
They did not know that the Negro long ago learned he must tell them what they want to hear, not what is. I
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
“It isn’t my nature to be an activist,” he told Studs Terkel in 1978, “but your vocation doesn’t necessarily conform to your nature.”
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
there is no Other - that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
there is no Other—that the Other is simply Oneself in all the significant essentials.”
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
How easy it was to destroy a man’s good name and reputation by suggesting he was in some way subversive or by calling him a communist.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
the gracious Southerner, the wise Southerner, the kind Southerner was nowhere visible. I knew that if I were white, I would find him easily, for his other face is there for whites to see. It is not a false face; it is simply different from the one the Negro sees.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
I felt again the Negro children’s lips soft against mine, so like the feel of my own children’s good-night kisses. I saw again their large eyes, guileless, not yet aware that doors into wonderlands of security, opportunity and hope were closed to them.
John Howard Griffin, Robert Bonazzi, Studs Terkel • Black Like Me
But since racism always hides under a respectable guise - usually the guise of patriotism and religion - a great many people loathed us for knocking holes in these respectable guises.