“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice… when he realized that I really believed I

“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice… when he realized that I really believed I could do, anything a white boy could do, and had every intention of proving it, was not at all like the fear I heard when one of us was ill or had fallen down the stairs or strayed too far from the house. It was another fear, a far that the child, in challenging the white world’s assumptions, was putting himself in the path of destruction.”― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time -- source link

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