'When you try to stand up and look the world in the face, like you had a right to be here, when you do that - without knowing this is the result of it - you have attacked the entire power structure of the western world. If I, one fine day, discover that I have been lied to all the years of my life, and my mother and my father were being lied to. If I discover that in fact, though I was bred and bought and sold like a mule - that I never really was a mule. If I discover that I was never really happy picking all that cotton and digging in all those mines, to make other people rich. And if I discover that those songs the darkies sang and sing were not just the innocent expressions of a primitive people, but extremely subtle and difficult, dangerous and tragic expressions of what it felt like to be in chains. Then by one's presence simply, by the attempt to walk from here to there - you have begun to frighten the white world.' - James Baldwin (1969)