If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
James A. BaldwinAn American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.
James A. BaldwinWhat passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
James A. Baldwin