“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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