“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“When someone strives & strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
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