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“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
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“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?”
― Black Skin, White Masks
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?”
― Black Skin, White Masks
“As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I recognise that I am a Negro. There are two ways out of this conflict. Either I ask others to pay no attention to my skin, or else I want them to be aware of it. I try then to find value for what is bad--since I have unthinkingly conceded that the black man is the colour of evil. In order to terminate this neurotic situation, in which I am compelled to choose an unhealthy, conflictual solution, fed on fantasies, hostile, inhuman in short, I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and through one human being, to reach out for the universal.
When the Negro dives--in other words, goes under--something remarkable occurs.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
When the Negro dives--in other words, goes under--something remarkable occurs.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
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