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They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the deepest necessity to despise them.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.

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