“The very dangerous effort one has got to make: to deal with other people as though they were simply human beings. To remember that no matter what the details of their lives may be like, or how much they may seem different to you superficially, or what the social pressures are outside of what the psychological pressures are within, to deal with this other human being precisely as though…he or she was here for the first time and the only time. To deal with them in some way you want them to deal with you, at no matter what price. From my point of view, no label, no slogan, no party, no skin color, and indeed no religion, is more important than the human being…The human core in everybody…if one can do it, it liberates you and it liberates me, because when the chips are down this is all there is—there isn’t anything else.”

-James Baldwin