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We have invented the nigger.
I didn't invent him.
White people invented him.

I've always known,
I had to know by the time I was 17 years old,
What you were describing was not me,
And what you were afraid of was not me
It has to be else,
Something YOU were afraid of - you invested me with.

Now, if that's so...
No matter what you've done to me,
I can say to you this, and I mean

And I know,
And I've always known,
And really always- that's a part of the agony -
I've always known that I am not a nigger.
But if I am not the nigger,
And if it's true that your invention revelas you,
Then who is the nigger?
I'm not the victim here.

I know one thing from another...
I know I was born, I'm gonna suffer, and I'm gonna die.
The only way to get through life is know the worst things about it.

I've learned this because I had to learn it.
But, you still think, I gather,
That the nigger is necessary.
Well, he's unnecessary to me,
So he must be necessary to you.
So I give you your problem back:
You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me.