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In this way, Julie started to see that we’re all in Holland, because most people don’t have lives that go exactly as planned.
“The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone thinks you are a Negro he is mistaken, because you merely look like one.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.”
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