Bamidele Emmanuel
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“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the history offered up to black people—its many interpretations and echoes of white superiority and black inferiority, of white heroism and black cowardice, and even the temporal and geographical location of history’s beginning as a step off of the African continent—is a falsehood that blacks are forced to treat as truth in so many countless ways. Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.”
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
“What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.”
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
“I write what I like”
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
“Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste a lot of time trying to prove to as many blacks as they can find that they are liberal.”
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
― I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
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