Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.
“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“They did not march far: less than a mile, to this valley. They called it Augustown, as if the place itself were the freedom they had just received, but time would teach them disappointment. This place was no freedom, and Massa Day was not done. Massa had only changed his name. He was no longer ‘Busha’ or ‘Buckra’ or ‘Massa’. He was now ‘Boss’ or ‘Miss’ or ‘Sergeant’. Sometimes Massa even changed his skin from white to black, making this whole freedom thing complicated.”
― Augustown
― Augustown
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
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