“True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?” PeopleMenShouldHas BeensMadeDifferentRealHandsBigsLastsUsedDesireFightingGrowsPresidentWhiteBehindsSawsGrowingChangedYouthTearsBecomingSlaveCorruptionGovernorsWhite ManVeilsCastlesBlackness Author:Ayi Kwei Armah
“How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.” MenHas BeensSoulEnoughSufferingLowsCorruptionBetrayalAshamedDeceitRapidsSly Book:The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born Source: The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
