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“If we do not help the whites, we shall be left by the roadside. And if we are such fools as to stand against the whites, they will grind us till we become less than impotent, less than grains of bad snuff tossing in a storm. That is the choice before every one of us. I myself, I have already chosen. And those who think like me have chosen. We shall be on the side of the whites. That is where power lies….have you ever seen those guns the white men have? The really big ones, not the little rifles men carry on their shoulders? Nothing will ever make me stand against those guns. The only place for me is firmly by the side of whoever possesses such powerful weapons.
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Healers
