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“Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.”
Interview in African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998) edited by George Yancy, p. 35
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