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And it struck us all then, the answer to humanity’s eternal question of Why? It was, and is, simply this: Why not?
“If I’m unreadable—if all these Asians you refer to are unreadable—perhaps we are only unreadable to those who do not know how to read. Semantics—”
― The Committed
― The Committed
“Real talent was required to use so many words in two languages to say nothing.”
― The Committed
― The Committed
“The colonized is a persecuted person whose permanent dream is to become the persecutor.”
― The Committed
― The Committed
“There was only one solution to this alienation that was created not by the Negro or the bastard, but by the real bastards, the racists and colonizers who blamed the victim for the conditions that the victimizer created. And that solution was “to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and, through one human being, to reach out for the universal.”
― The Committed
― The Committed
“Those who believe in revolutions are the ones who haven’t lived through one yet.”
― The Committed
― The Committed
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