“I know this and everyone who’s ever tried to live knows this. What you say about anybody else reveals you … I’m not describing you when I talk about you, I’m describing me. Now here in this country there something called a nigger. We have invented the nigger. I didn’t invent him. White people invented him. I’ve always know since that time that I was 17 years old that what you are describing was not me and what you were afraid of was not me. It has to be something else … I’ve always know that I’m not a nigger. But if it’s true that your invention reveals you, then who is the nigger? … You still think, I gather that the nigger is necessary. Well, he’s unnecessary to me, so he must be necessary to you. I’m going to give you your problem back: You’re the nigger, baby, it isn’t me.“
- James Baldwin (pbuh)



