Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan’s still. Arthur Rimbaud
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The quote, "Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers.

Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan’s still." is attributed to the slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass". The quote can also be found in the autobiography "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" by Edward Covey. The last line of this quote is repeated in another version of the quote which says "You are all niggers".

Source: A Season In Hell/The Drunken Boat

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