... an American-, James Baldwin writes about how he personally came about discovering his true identity. One of the first things he says is, "I left America because I doubted my ability to survive the fury of the color problem here. I wanted to prevent myself from becoming merely a negro writer. I wanted to find in what way the specialness of my experience could be made to connect me with other people instead ... had to do is open up my mind to what was happening, and it would've been gravy. We can reverse the analysis just as easily, and I can think about my life at school in the big pictu...

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