"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."

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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