simo Chaker Lamrani

“The colonized subject also manages to lose sight of the colonist through religion. Fatalism relieves the oppressor of all responsibility since the cause of wrong-doing, poverty, and the inevitable can be attributed to God. The individual thus accepts the devastation decreed by God, grovels in front of the colonist, bows to the hand of fate, and mentally readjusts to acquire the serenity of stone.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“He longed for certainty, and was afraid of it.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

“The ‘realism’ here is analogous to the deflationary perspective of a depressive who believes that any positive state, any hope, is a dangerous illusion.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“The nationalist leaders know that international opinion is forged solely by the Western press. When a Western journalist interviews us, however, it is seldom done to render us service.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth