That was one of the things she held against missionaries how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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