Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves

James Baldwin in The New Yorker (1962): In short, we, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation—if we are really, that is, to achieve our identity, our maturity, as men and women. To create one nation has proved to be a hideously difficult task; there….