[…] precisely when one says, “I am not a part,” one is most trapped by one’s identity, most paralyzed and most limited by the greater society, and that is a sign one has given up, given in; that one is precisely not in a condition of freedom – but of entrapment. Saying, “I am not a part” is very different from saying, “Because I am a part, I will not participate in that manner.” The first is delusion. The second is power.

Samuel R. Delany