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And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.

Source: To All Black Women, From All Black Men, Soul on Ice, 1968.
-- Eldridge Cleaver, (Aug 31 1935-1998), US political activist, civil rights leader; His early troubles led to prison where he read voraciously and wrote Soul on Ice essays; later became Minister of Information of the Black Panthers.

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