In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
