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I'm trying to get at this. that is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.
-Malcolm X
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I'm Trying To Get At This. That

Malcolm X
I'm trying to get at this. that is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.
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