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The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Leopold Senghor, (Oct 9 1906-2001), Senegalese poet, statesman; He was president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. He was a major proponent of a moderate African socialism.

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