Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness … - Nadine Gordimer

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Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness because we cannot be conscious of ourselves and at the same time remain slaves -

Nadine Gordimer

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About Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African Jewish novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize.*, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".[1]

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Our liberation cannot be divorced from black consciousness because we cannot be conscious of ourselves and at the same time remain slaves - - Nadine Gordimer

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