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African Diaspora
“
Why should I be afraid of you?'
He was still laughing. He said 'Maybe you think I'll think you are a missionary and I'll eat you.'
I said 'I don't think that anyway. If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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― The Heart of a Woman
― The Heart of a Woman
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My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of the day
my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye
my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral
it takes root in the red flesh of the soil
it takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky
it breaks through opaque prostration with its upright patience.
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― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
― Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
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