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"You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway."
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"May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens."Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."

"I would like to sing someone to sleep,to sit beside someone and be there.I would like to rock you and sing softlyand go with you to and from sleep.I would like to be the one in the housewho knew: The night was cold.And I would like to listen in and listen outinto you, into the world, into the woods.The clocks shout to one another striking,and one sees to the bottom of time.And down below one last, strange man walks byand rouses a strange dog.And after that comes silence.I have laid my eyes upon you wide;and they hold you gently and let you gowhen something stirs in the dark."

"I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care."
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"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."


"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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