We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. — Chinua Achebe
We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.
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The earth seemed unearthly.
The real question is the dehumanization of Africa and Africans which this age-long attitude has fostered and continues to foster in the world. And the question is whether a novel which celebrates this dehumanization, which depersonalizes a portion of the human race, can be called a great work of art.
A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days.
