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We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite.

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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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But the color of a Negro’s skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target
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Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.
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We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like livin’ in jail.
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?
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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.
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And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.
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I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak,
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness.
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