Status Updates From Peau noire, masques blancs

it is nice to read something and realise you see what you see and you are not crazy, even if it means that material conditions have not changed for your people in the past, the now, and most likely the future

Encountering opposition from the other, self-consciousness experiences desire, the first stage that leads to the dignity of the mind. It agrees to risk life, and consequently threatens the other in his physical being. “It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; only thus is it tried and proved that the essential nature of self-consciousness is not bare existence,