Both Uses

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But under all our talk floated a latent sense of violence; the whites had drawn a line over which we dared not step and we accepted that line because our bread was at stake.†
Chpt 1.12 *

latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
Why was it that I was a suspected manbecause I wanted to reveal the vast physical and spiritual ravages of Negro life, the profundity latent in these rejected people, the dramas as old as man and the sun and the mountains and the seas that were transpiring in the poverty of black America?†
Chpt 2.19

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