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- For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.
- To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach…
- For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread…
- The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be…
- Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
- Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate…
- [Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks…
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