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The Life Of The Nation Is Shot Through With A Certain Falseness And Hypocrisy, Which Are All The More Tragic Because They Are So Often Subconscious Rather Than Deliberate ... The Soul Of The People Is Putrescent, And Until That Becomes Regenerate And Clean, No Good Work Can Be Done.

When We Revolt It’s Not For A Particular Culture. We Revolt Simply Because, For Many Reasons, We Can No Longer Breathe.

Every Colonized People-in Other Words, Every People In Whose Soul An Inferiority Complex Has Been Created By The Death And Burial Of Its Local Cultural Originality-finds Itself Face To Face With The Language Of The Civilizing Nation; That Is, With The Culture Of The Mother Country. The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.

It Is The White Man Who Creates The Negro. But It Is The Negro Who Creates Negritude.

Sometimes People Hold A Core Belief That Is Very Strong. When They Are Presented With Evidence That Works Against That Belief, The New Evidence Cannot Be Accepted. It Would Create A Feeling That Is Extremely Uncomfortable, Called Cognitive Dissonance. And Because It Is So Important To Protect The Core Belief, They Will Rationalize, Ignore And Even Deny Anything That Doesn't Fit In With The Core Belief.