Vomiting the Filth

  “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught 
about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as 
though I had a right to be here.”

— James Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays