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Jill Nelson - Volunteer Slavery (1993)

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Not that there's anything inherently horrible about making a mistake, but when you're a Negro in America it's usually not just you who's making the mistake. It's y'all, the race, black folks in toto.

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I was looking for the authentic Negro experience, which of course my own wasn't, since being bourgeois somehow negated being black.

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Born: June 14, 1952 (age 72)
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