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Mulatto, Quadroon,
Somewhere Between.

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"I want to tell you what
for me it has been like.

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To speak at all, I
must occupy a position

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in a system whose positions
I appear not to occupy.

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Though some say such
non-position is my position,

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speak from that placeless place
outside the system, et cetera,

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some would say and have said.

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If the placeless place is
created by terms of the system,

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then it must be
within the system,

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even if it appears otherwise.

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And so it may be that the
position presumed to be of body

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might better be regarded
as a position of thought

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or a receptivity to possible
experience, as conceived

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by the still implausible
eye of a man who defined

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the flimsy self he carried
against those whom he did not

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understand, or know, or
in any real sense, see.

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And if the possible
vision of that implausible

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I accounted for you
in name only, then

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filed you under
consequence, side effect,

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it is not that the system
fails to position you.

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It positions you actively
and specifically nowhere so

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that you appear on the
outside and remain within,

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or you appear within, but
remain on the outside.

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Which is to say, in other
words, a part and a part.

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And so if to speak in a
particular social world,

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I must occupy a position,
and that world consists

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of positions that are clear, but
none of which clearly I occupy,

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then it may be that I cannot,
even if I want to, tell you

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what, for me, it has been like.

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And so."

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