"As one raised in a subculture experience..."

Quote: 

As one raised in a subculture experience (I am a Negro) where those within were and are forever lecturing to their fellows about how to appear acceptable to the dominant social groups, I know something about the shallowness of such a view in and of itself…what ought to be clear is that one is oppressed or discriminated against because one is ‘different’, not ‘wrong’ or ‘bad.’ This is perhaps the bitterest of the entire pill.

Attribution: 

Lorraine Hansberry, letter to The Ladder, Vol. 1 No. 8 (May, 1957).