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is a category determined by nothing but centuries of racist degradation, exploitation, oppression, the abuse of white supremacy, and the struggle against that abuse.

is determined by nothing but ''Centuries of racist degradation, exploitation, and oppression and the abuse of white supremacist and the struggle against that abuse.'

is a dual process defined by the corporeal schema and the historico-racial schema.

a dual process defined by the corporeal schema and the historico-racial schema (Fanon).

is having one's legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

is marked by the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies.

is trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death.

is in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth. Blackness is not a curse, but a capturing by the skin of all the cosmic effluvia, a drop of sun under the earth.

I am black... I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth. Frantz Fanon

is not a matter of pigmentation but a reflection of a mental attitude.

being black is not a matter of pigmentation, being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. steven biko

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