“If you can think of the mind as having one hundred ergs of energy, and the average man uses fifty percent of his energy dealing with the everyday problems of the world — just general kinds of things — then he has fifty percent more to do creative kinds of things that he wants to do. Now that’s a white person. Now a black person also has one hundred ergs; he uses fifty percent the same way a white man does, dealing with what the white man has [to deal with], so he has fifty percent left. But he uses twenty-five percent fighting being black, with all the problems being black and what it means. Which means he really only has twenty-five percent to do what the white man has fifty percent to do, and he’s expected to do just as much as the white man with that twenty-five percent . . . . So, that’s kind of what happens. You just don’t have as much energy left to do as much as you know you really could if you were free, [if] your mind were free.” (From an interview with a retired Black professor at a major university)
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