"real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry & thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry & thirsty."
"at a moral level, i don't think we have any lesson to learn from europe."
"in the army we saw those who considered themselves our masters naked, in tears, some cowardly or ignorant. when a white soldier asked me to write a letter for him, it was a revelation--i thought all europeans knew how to write. the war demystified the colonizer; the veil fell."
"it isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, & sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically."
"at the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened."
"however long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile."
etc.
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