And his insistence that liberation is a psychological as well as a political project echoes contemporary calls for “decolonizing the mind.”
“Falling in was one of the greatest risks of adult life, not much discussed—falling in to conspiracy, fanaticism, religion, and embarrassing beliefs, as life continued on and the weight of it broke people left and right.”
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
“There is very little that can be done when a society decides that the only rule of life is to get yours, and that empathy, concern, and worry are for losers and chumps.”
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
“But his experiences with the mentally ill in Algeria suggested that culture and the ability to breathe were inextricably connected—that cultural belonging, even clinging to seemingly outmoded traditions, could be a way in which the colonized body continued to draw breath, and affirm its will to live.”
― The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
― The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
“They and their patients “shared the ingredients of the same humanity”; the only difference was that the caregivers “were still standing.”
― The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
― The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
“Americans loved an act of cheap, self-congratulatory patriotism as a cover for a botched response, for systemic failure.”
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
― Health and Safety: A Breakdown
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