"I mean, I don't know what the fuss is about. I mean, everything in the world loves you. White men love you. They spend so much time worrying about your penis they forget their own...And white women? They chase you all to every corner of the earth, feel for you under every bed...Colored women worry themselves into bad health just trying to hang on to your cuffs. Even little children-white and black, boys and girls- spend all their childhood eating their hearts out 'cause they think you don't love them. And if that ain't enough, you love yourselves. Nothing in the world loves a black man more than another black man...
It looks to me like you are the envy of the world."

-from Sula,
a novel by Toni Morrison