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> [I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/i-have-seen-white-settlers-in-africa-who-had-sworn-that-they-would/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

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## More by Lewis Nkosi

> [All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/all-black-people-who-are-even-minimally-conscious-black-people-who/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

> [After all, if it comes to all that, there is really neither Ogun or Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our own consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/after-all-if-it-comes-to-all-that-there-is-really-neither-ogun-or/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

> [Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/liberals-want-to-set-up-social-welfare-committees-to-help-whites-and/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

> [I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/i-have-seen-white-settlers-in-africa-who-had-sworn-that-they-would/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

> [After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/after-all-if-it-comes-to-that-there-is-really-neither-ogun-nor-jesus/)

[Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/)

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