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• Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
• In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
• When I turn on my radio, when I hear that Negroes have been lynched in America, I say that we have been…
• I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all…
• It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
• Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,…
• Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me…
• There's room for everyone at the rendezvous of victory.
• Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest…
• And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of…
• Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love…

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