I had never read a book written by an African-American.....

“ I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up. ”

Endesha Ida Mae Holland

From : From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir