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« In this way he subtly criticized me for having romanticized something which was really nothing more than terribly hard work. It was then that I began to realize the true meaning of underdevelopment: it is nothing to be utopianized. Romanticizing the plight of oppressed people is dangerous and misleading »

« I became acquainted very early with the widespread presence of an unfortunate syndrome among some Black male activists-namely to confuse their political activity with an assertion of their maleness. They saw-and some continue to see-Black manhood as something separate from Black womanhood. These men view Black women as a threat to their attainment of manhood especially those Black women who take initiative… »

« Because the masses of white people harbor racist attitudes, our people tended to see them as the villains and not the institutionalized forms of racism, which, though definitely reinforced by prejudiced attitudes, serve, fundamentally, only the interests of the rulers. »

« As in the United States, there was a natural inclination to identify the enemy as the white man. Natural because the great majority of white people, both in the United States an England, have been carriers of the racism which, in reality benefits only a small number of them-the capitalists »