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  • I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

    James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company