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“It matters not that I am pitied, even by my white fellow-workers who are conscious of the fact that besides being an economic slave as they, I am what they are not – a social leper, of a race outcast from an outcast class. Theirs is a class, which though circumscribed in its sphere, yet has a freedom of movement – a right to satisfy the simple cravings of the body – which is denied to me. Yet I see no other way of upward struggle for colored peoples, but by way of the working class movement”
— Claude McKay, How Black Sees Green and Red (1921)
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