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“Those who do, do so at the grave expense of double alienation: from their own people, whose fabled attributes they must either deny or, worse, cheapen and bring to market; from us, for we require of them, when we accept them, that they at once cease to be Negroes and yet not fail to remember what being a Negro means - to remember, that is, what it means to us” p. 27

“It is the peculiar triumph of society - and its loss - that it is able to convince those people to whom it has given inferior status of the reality of this decree; it has the force and the weapons to translate its dictum into fact, so that the allegedly inferior are actually made so, insofar as the social realities are concerned” p. 20

Everybody’s Protest Novel.

Baldwins stijl is even inkomen. Hij schrijft schitterend, maar geconcentreerd lezen en af en toe even teruggaan is echt nodig.