"If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free."

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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.

— James A. Baldwin