This is actually a quote from the poet Robert Jones Jr, who goes by “SonOfBaldwin” on social media (hence the frequent misattribution)
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This is actually a quote from the poet Robert Jones Jr, who goes by “SonOfBaldwin” on social media (hence the frequent misattribution)
I love the quote so much, and also shared it widely, misattributed to James Baldwin. Jones went by @sonofbaldwin which I think is where the mix up started.
But I missed sharing it as a meme. So, I made myself a new one to share.
But I missed sharing it as a meme. So, I made myself a new one to share.
December 19, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I love the quote so much, and also shared it widely, misattributed to James Baldwin. Jones went by @sonofbaldwin which I think is where the mix up started.
But I missed sharing it as a meme. So, I made myself a new one to share.
But I missed sharing it as a meme. So, I made myself a new one to share.
James Baldwin never said this. Robert Jones Jr., author of THE PROPHETS, who formerly used the handle "sonofbaldwin," said this.
November 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
James Baldwin never said this. Robert Jones Jr., author of THE PROPHETS, who formerly used the handle "sonofbaldwin," said this.
Wonderful quote but wasn’t James Baldwin.
It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, but essayist and novelist Robert Jones Jr., who used to write online under the moniker @sonofbaldwin. He wrote and posted these words on X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 18, 2015.
It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, but essayist and novelist Robert Jones Jr., who used to write online under the moniker @sonofbaldwin. He wrote and posted these words on X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 18, 2015.
James Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?
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October 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Wonderful quote but wasn’t James Baldwin.
It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, but essayist and novelist Robert Jones Jr., who used to write online under the moniker @sonofbaldwin. He wrote and posted these words on X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 18, 2015.
It wasn't James Baldwin who said this, but essayist and novelist Robert Jones Jr., who used to write online under the moniker @sonofbaldwin. He wrote and posted these words on X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 18, 2015.
It's actually Robert Jones Jr., formerly @sonofbaldwin on Twitter.
(See www.snopes.com/fact-check/j... )
(See www.snopes.com/fact-check/j... )
James Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?
James Baldwin has a few talented intellectual heirs.
www.snopes.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's actually Robert Jones Jr., formerly @sonofbaldwin on Twitter.
(See www.snopes.com/fact-check/j... )
(See www.snopes.com/fact-check/j... )
That's actually not a James Baldwin quote! This is a common misattribution. The quote is from living Black writer Robert Jones Jr., who used to run a social media account under the handle sonofbaldwin sonofbaldwin.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
That's actually not a James Baldwin quote! This is a common misattribution. The quote is from living Black writer Robert Jones Jr., who used to run a social media account under the handle sonofbaldwin sonofbaldwin.com
Community note: This is an August 2015 Twitter post by an author whose handle and website are called "Son of Baldwin" - not by Baldwin himself.
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Community note: This is an August 2015 Twitter post by an author whose handle and website are called "Son of Baldwin" - not by Baldwin himself.
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
~ Robert Jones Jr
@sonofbaldwin
~ Robert Jones Jr
@sonofbaldwin
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”
~ Robert Jones Jr
@sonofbaldwin
~ Robert Jones Jr
@sonofbaldwin
I don't think it's anything to apologize for: as you said, it's a very commonly-repeated misattribution.
I just feel bad for SonOfBaldwin who misses out on some credit for this banger of a quotation.
I just feel bad for SonOfBaldwin who misses out on some credit for this banger of a quotation.
September 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I don't think it's anything to apologize for: as you said, it's a very commonly-repeated misattribution.
I just feel bad for SonOfBaldwin who misses out on some credit for this banger of a quotation.
I just feel bad for SonOfBaldwin who misses out on some credit for this banger of a quotation.
James Baldwin is amazing, but awkwardly that wonderful statement wasn't made by Baldwin, but rather by a user on Twitter who used the handle "@SonOfBaldwin."
September 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
James Baldwin is amazing, but awkwardly that wonderful statement wasn't made by Baldwin, but rather by a user on Twitter who used the handle "@SonOfBaldwin."
Both of the misattributes I know of go back to twitter names playing on those names.
SonofBaldwin for this quote and W.E.B.B.I.E. Dubois for that "system can't fail what it was never designed to protect" quote.
SonofBaldwin for this quote and W.E.B.B.I.E. Dubois for that "system can't fail what it was never designed to protect" quote.
That "We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist" is still getting misattributed to James Baldwin instead of Robert Jones Jr., huh? Damn. Guess Mark Twain was right.
September 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Both of the misattributes I know of go back to twitter names playing on those names.
SonofBaldwin for this quote and W.E.B.B.I.E. Dubois for that "system can't fail what it was never designed to protect" quote.
SonofBaldwin for this quote and W.E.B.B.I.E. Dubois for that "system can't fail what it was never designed to protect" quote.
Reminder
September 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reminder
Folks, the quote about disagreeing and still loving each other is extremely solid, but it wasn’t said by James Baldwin, so maybe hold off on sharing that meme.
It was said by Robert Jones Jr. on Twitter in 2015, under the handle @sonofbaldwin.
Again, great quote.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
It was said by Robert Jones Jr. on Twitter in 2015, under the handle @sonofbaldwin.
Again, great quote.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
James Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?
James Baldwin has a few talented intellectual heirs.
www.snopes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Folks, the quote about disagreeing and still loving each other is extremely solid, but it wasn’t said by James Baldwin, so maybe hold off on sharing that meme.
It was said by Robert Jones Jr. on Twitter in 2015, under the handle @sonofbaldwin.
Again, great quote.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
It was said by Robert Jones Jr. on Twitter in 2015, under the handle @sonofbaldwin.
Again, great quote.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
Don’t let these “civility” scolds fool you. As Son Of Baldwin said 10 years ago
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Don’t let these “civility” scolds fool you. As Son Of Baldwin said 10 years ago
Because I just saw it, that "we can disagree unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression" quote is not James Baldwin. It is was said by a user whose handle was SonofBaldwin and has been misattributed to James Baldwin.
September 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Because I just saw it, that "we can disagree unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression" quote is not James Baldwin. It is was said by a user whose handle was SonofBaldwin and has been misattributed to James Baldwin.
Yeah, nah. 🤌🏾🎯🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤🫶🏾
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"—Robert Jones, Jr. (@sonofbaldwin), 2015
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"—Robert Jones, Jr. (@sonofbaldwin), 2015
September 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yeah, nah. 🤌🏾🎯🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🖤🫶🏾
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"—Robert Jones, Jr. (@sonofbaldwin), 2015
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"—Robert Jones, Jr. (@sonofbaldwin), 2015
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."
-Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)
-Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."
-Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)
-Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin)
Identical to the quote from @/SonofBaldwin that is mis-attributed to James Baldwin.
So, there's a quote that's been floating around for over 10 years, used even by people who read, attributed to WEB Du Bois that was really from a ni**a named Vann whose Twitter handle was Webbie Du Bois so this is completely unsurprising and why I need us to preserve physical media.
AI is being used to fabricate quotes and attribute them to real people, Yair Rosenberg reports. Here's what he did when it happened to him:
August 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Identical to the quote from @/SonofBaldwin that is mis-attributed to James Baldwin.
No. Robert Jones, Jr. answered that ten years ago.
NB: The quote is often misattributed to James Baldwin, as Robert Jones, Jr.'s username on the Hellsite was @SonOfBaldwin.
NB: The quote is often misattributed to James Baldwin, as Robert Jones, Jr.'s username on the Hellsite was @SonOfBaldwin.
July 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
No. Robert Jones, Jr. answered that ten years ago.
NB: The quote is often misattributed to James Baldwin, as Robert Jones, Jr.'s username on the Hellsite was @SonOfBaldwin.
NB: The quote is often misattributed to James Baldwin, as Robert Jones, Jr.'s username on the Hellsite was @SonOfBaldwin.
That is a good quote. But it is from Robert Jones Jr., who for a long time wrote under the username "sonofbaldwin".
June 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
That is a good quote. But it is from Robert Jones Jr., who for a long time wrote under the username "sonofbaldwin".
This is a great quotation, but it isn't by James Baldwin. It's by Robert Jones Jr., who used to be SonofBaldwin on twitter.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
James Baldwin Said 'We Can Disagree and Still Love Each Other'?
James Baldwin has a few talented intellectual heirs.
www.snopes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
This is a great quotation, but it isn't by James Baldwin. It's by Robert Jones Jr., who used to be SonofBaldwin on twitter.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/j...
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March 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM