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All you are ever told in this country about being black is that it is a terrible, terrible thing to be. Now, in order to survive this, you have to really dig down into yourself and re-create yourself, really, according to no image which yet exists in America. You have to impose, in fact -- this may sound very strange -- you have to decide who you are, and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
-- James Baldwin
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