West African Vodun/relationship To B%c3%b2

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    “We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise,
    And the door stood open at our feast,
    When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes,
    And a man with his back to the East.”
    —Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)

    “A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)