QOTD

"I couldn't accept what I'd been told, and all you're ever told in this country about being black is that it's a terrible, terrible thing to be. Now in order to survive this, you have to really dig down into yourself and recreate yourself... according to no image which yet exists in America... You have to impose in fact---this may sound strange---you have to decide who you are. And force the world to deal with who you are and not with its idea of you."

-- James Baldwin (in an interview with Studs Terkel, 1961)