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The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.
Source: Frederick Douglass and the Language of the Self. in The Yale Review, Summer 1981.
-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr, (Sep 16 1950-____), US educator, critic, author; He is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities at Harvard University; won the American Book Award for The Signifying Monkey.