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All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and

All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

Lewis Nkosi
Regret, Europe, People

After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

Lewis Nkosi
God, Jesus, Consciousness

I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.

Lewis Nkosi
Country, White, Racism
Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

Lewis Nkosi
Strong, Powerful, Long
Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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