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"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
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"Analysis does not transform consciousness."

"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."

"It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness."

"The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware."

"The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness."

"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."

"There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness."

"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."


"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."


"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."


"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."


"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."


"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."
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