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“The negro is not a Christian, really, because of vestiges of African religions still very much alive and patently manifest in traditional forms of worship, especially in the South. We are not Christians really, but Pagans, full of mud, sweat, and blood. It is true that we employ all the outward symbols of Christianity, but it is the beating of drums at a new altar, and calling old gods by new names”
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“Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute? It only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might nearly be free. But now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us”
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