The Negro Enslaved By His

To Educate The Masses Politically Does Not Mean, Cannot Mean, Making A Political Speech. What It Means Is To Try, Relentlessly And Passionately, To Teach The Masses That Everything Depends On Them; That If We Stagnate It Is Their Responsibility, And That If We Go Forward It Is Due To Them Too, That There Is No Such Thing As A Demiurge, That There Is No Famous Man Who Will Take The Responsibility For Everything, But That The Demiurge Is The People Themselves And The Magic Hands Are Finally Only The Hands Of The People.

When People Like Me, They Like Me "in Spite Of My Color." When They Dislike Me; They Point Out That It Isn't Because Of My Color. Either Way, I Am Locked In To The Infernal Circle.

To Speak...means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

Collective Guilt Is Borne By What Is Conventionally Called The Scapegoat. Now The Scapegoat For White Society - Which Is Based On Myths Of Progress, Civilization, Liberalism, Education, Enlightenment, Refinement - Will Be Precisely The Force That Opposes The Expansion And The Triumph Of These Myths. This Brutal Opposing Force Is Supplied By The Negro.

The Oppressed Will Always Believe The Worst About Themselves.