"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know."

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Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected.

— James A. Baldwin