It is the peculiar triumph of society – and its loss – that it is able to convince those people to whom it has given inferior status of the reality of this decree; it has the force and the weapons to translate its dictum into fact, so that the allegedly inferior are actually made so, in so far as the societal realities are concerned…Now, as then, we find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorization. - James Baldwin