"The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale]."

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Not only have we paid the price with our names in ink, but we have also paid in blood. And they can't say that black people can't be intelligent, because going back to Africa, in Guinea, there are almost 4 million people there and what he, President [Sekou] Toure, is doing to educate the people: as long as the French people had it they weren't doing a thing that is being done now.

— Fannie Lou Hamer