"I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent."

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This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

— William Robertson Smith