Up to today we are set at a division, so that he may not marry our daughters or our sisters, nor may he-for the most part-eat at our tables or live in our houses. Moreover, those who do, do so at the grave expense of a 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.
( James Baldwin )
[ Notes of a Native Son ]
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