Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation. .Anonymous
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The quote above is a good example of how the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation. This quote shows how the black man has been used as a source of stability and peace, but as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation. Man is not meant to be stable or even peaceful, but should be constantly changing and unpredictable.
Source: The Fire Next Time
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