Episode 153 - Saturday, November 18, 1978
Episode 153 · January 28th, 2017 · 18 mins 21 secs
About this Episode
The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person. Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
James Baldwin, "Letter from a Region in My Mind," 1962
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