"... in the moment you are born, you don't know any better, every stick and stone, every face is white, and since you have not yet seen a mirror, you suppose that you are, too. It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, or 6, to discover that Gary Cooper killing the Indians when you were rooting for him, that the Indians were you.
... to discover the country which is your birthplace, to which you owe your life, your identity has not in its whole system of reality evolved any place for you."