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[educated Blacks] Society Refuses To Consider Them Genuine Negroes. The Negro Is A Savage, Whereas The Student Is Civilized. "you're Us," And If Anyone Thinks You Are A Negro He Is Mistaken, Because You Merely Look Like One.

Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction; It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect

Everything Can Be Explained To The People, On The Single Condition That You Want Them To Understand.

Collective Guilt Is Borne By What Is Conventionally Called The Scapegoat. Now The Scapegoat For White Society - Which Is Based On Myths Of Progress, Civilization, Liberalism, Education, Enlightenment, Refinement - Will Be Precisely The Force That Opposes The Expansion And The Triumph Of These Myths. This Brutal Opposing Force Is Supplied By The Negro.

For The Beloved Should Not Allow Me To Turn My Infantile Fantasies Into Reality: On The Contrary, He Should Help Me To Go Beyond Them.