"...one of the things that most afflicts this country is that white people don’t know who they are or where they come from. That’s why you think I’m a problem. But, I am not a problem; your history is. And as long as you pretend you don’t know your history, you’re going to be the prisoner of it. And there’s no question of you liberating me, because you can’t liberate yourselves."  

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- James Baldwin, Washington DC, December 10, 1986