The people who have managed to get off this block have only got as far as a more respectable ghetto. This respectable ghetto does not even have the advantages of the disreputable one-friends, neighbors, a familiar church, and friendly tradesmen; and it is not, moreover, in the nature of any ghetto to remain respectable long. Every Sunday, people who have left the block take the lonely ride back, dragging their increasingly discontented children with them. They spend the day talking, not always with words, about the trouble they've seen and the trouble-one must watch their eyes as they watch their children-they are only too likely to see. For children do not like ghettos. It takes them nearly no time to discover exactly why they are there.
( James Baldwin )
[ Nobody Knows My Name ]
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