We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
Source: The Crusade of Indignation, in Nation (New York, 7 Jul 1956; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985).
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.