“Take no one's word for anything, including mine, but trust your
experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there
is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life
have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people
say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as
what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority,
but to their inhumanity and fear.”
-James Baldwin, Letter to my Nephew