James Baldwin Quote
But the African has not yet endured the utter alienation of himself from his people and his past. His mother did not sing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and he has not, all his life long, ached for acceptance in a culture which pronounced straight hair and white skin the only acceptable beauty. They face each other, the Negro and the African, over a gulf of three hundred years - an alienation too vast to be conquered in an evening's good-will
James Baldwin
But the African has not yet endured the utter alienation of himself from his people and his past. His mother did not sing Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, and he has not, all his life long, ached for acceptance in a culture which pronounced straight hair and white skin the only acceptable beauty. They face each other, the Negro and the African, over a gulf of three hundred years - an alienation too vast to be conquered in an evening's good-will