When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
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- Nationality: american
- Born: November 21, 1929
- Died: May 2, 2009
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To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine had 'one of those strong wills that know no obstacle'. what are we to read? will, energy, obstinacy, stubbornness, etc.?
Roland Barthes