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“They hoped that by keeping their spirits up, by keeping up appearances, they might compel destiny to see reason, force its hand, produce a miracle…Only a blind man would have carried on walking through their dark Utopia, waiting for a day that had already dawned on a new era; an era in which they were to play no part.”

“Poverty, I decided, had nothing to do with fate; it was simply a state of mind. We accept the world as we see it; we believe it to be immutable. But if we look away, even for a moment, another path appears, bright as a new penny, and so mysterious that we begin to dream…”

“Even now, I wonder if the world is nothing but appearances.”

There is nothing like learning a new language to remind you how agile and fluent the eye is and how unwilling and clumsy the tongue can be.

It is one thing to consider the particular intimacy of a single grace, another to glimpse death’s endless appetite. The deceased outnumbered the living. The present is the gold rim of a black cloak.

“We see the overall attitude of rejection of the values of the occupier, even if these values objectively be worth choosing. It is because they fail to grasp this intellectual reality, this characteristic feature, that the colonisers rage at always ‘doing them good in spite of themselves.’ Colonialism wants everything to come from it. But the dominant psychological feature of the colonised is to withdraw”

“Nations fall, armies collapse, businesses close, colonialists flee, a city destroyed by bombardment. But the masses go on living; they tenaciously recreate themselves, bury their dead and go forward.”

“But the great value of Fanon’s description of the conduct of the masses is in underlining the importance of their inner life, their private discussions, their resilience, their seemingly indirect actions. All this exists among all the peoples of the world. It is on this deep level that the future - which will later on seem to burst suddenly and without warning into bloom - is being prepared.”