Lewis Nkosi Quotes

• All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Regret, Europe, People

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• After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness.

  Lewis Nkosi

  God, Jesus, Consciousness

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• I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Country, White, Racism

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Los liberales quieren crear comités de bienestar social para ayudar a blancos y antillanos a quererse en Birmingham. Pero todos esos esfuerzos están condenados al fracaso. Para los fuertes, los débiles son una tentación demasiado grande; y para ser justos, me parece bastante perverso que los negros hayan tentado a los poderosos con tanta impotencia durante tanto tiempo. La respuesta obvia es corregir este desequilibrio de poder.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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