A wise girl knows her limits.
A great girl knows she has none.

What is Baldwin’s intent? Find one example where this intent is more apparent.

Intent:

To illustrate the gap between American culture and European culture caused by the exposure of black people.

Credit: Aled

^ Aled and I agreed on the same idea, but his phrasing sounds the most concise so I'm stealing it. :)

Example:

There is a dreadful abyss between the streets of this village and the streets of the city in which I was born, between the children who shout Neger! today and those who shouted Nigger! yesterday—the abyss is experience, the American experience.

Interpretation:

I thought that a lot of what Baldwin was saying revolved around the idea that although Americans and Europeans share the same ancestry, being a black in either of those places have very different connotations. Slavery and hopeless oppression in America is part of that American experience, while in Europe black men were simply overlooked, "invisible", and that is the gap of their cultures.