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“Emotion is Black, as reason is Hellenic.”
Source: Essay “Ce que l'homme noir apporte”, in L'Homme de couleur (Paris: Plon, 1939)
Context Written as a young Senegalese teacher in France for a collective volume on colonised peoples, setting out early Negritude claims; the line drew lasting criticism, which he answered by glossing it later.
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