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Cornel West _ Black Prophetic Fire
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm {X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class {black} leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
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W.E.B. Du Bois _ The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
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Richard Wright _ Black Boy
Those Garveyites I knew could never understand why I liked them but would never follow them, and I pitied them too much to tell them that they could never achieve their goal, that Africa was owned by the imperial powers of Europe, that their lives were alien to the mores of the natives of Africa, that they were people of the West and would for ever be so until they either merged with the West or perished.
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