“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“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
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
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