Lewis Nkosi quotes
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“After all, if it comes to all that, there is really neither Ogun or Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our own 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 NkosiSource : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”
-- Lewis NkosiSource : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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“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.”
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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
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“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
Source : Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.419, Delphi Classics
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“I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.”
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“If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.”
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“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
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