That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it, knows...something about himself and human life that no school on earth--and indeed, no church--can teach. He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakeable.
This is because, in order to save his life, he is forced to look beneath appearances, to take nothing for granted, to hear the meaning behind the words.引自第126页It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.
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This endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, contains, for all its horror, something very beautiful.引自第128页
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