![... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.](/assets/img/quote-photos/some-of-my-people-could-have-been-left-in-africa-and-are-living-there-and.jpg)
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