"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

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In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

— James A. Baldwin