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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Walter Mosley

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Alle Philosophen, die ich studierte, waren weiß (mit Ausnahme einiger östlicher Ausnahmen), und sie waren alle männlich. Afrika, die Wiege der Zivilisation, schien in der höchsten Form des menschlichen Denkens keinen Fuß zu haben.

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