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As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black chil ...
O my black soul! Now thou art summoned
By sickness, death's herald, and champion;
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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say ...
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. ...
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of m ...
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
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No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what h ...
I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled ov ...
I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me ...
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