Marian

“One of the myths about cancer is that it triggers bravery and heroism and larger-than-life qualities amplified against the bleak backdrop. But bravery can be confused with denial.”
― Carole Radziwill, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

“Yet once this “dead element,” the haïk, is wedded to the resistance, it ceases to be a sign of “modesty” or women’s subordination; on the contrary, it expresses an attitude of cultural rebellion, like Négritude: “It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the Negro who creates Négritude.”
― Adam Shatz, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

“The white cloth signified a refusal of the white mask, and the conqueror’s culture.”
― Adam Shatz, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

“As it turned out, Fanon would aid the FLN inside Algeria not as a fighter, but as a doctor. But to make himself useful, he first needed to establish contact with this clandestine and highly secretive organization.”
― Adam Shatz, The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon