GRACE LEE BOGGS: An Activist's Life Grace Lee Boggs at four or five. "...it used to infuriate me when not only my peers but teachers and other adults would ask me, 'What is your nationality?' I would reply patiently, as if giving them a civics lesson, that my nationality was American because I was born in the United States." -- Grace Lee Boggs, LIVING FOR CHANGE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY