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You were not born that person. You were born to become that person.
“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
“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
“Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.”
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“[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
“Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
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