Razan’s Reviews > Black Skin, White Masks > Status Update

“All those white men, fingering their guns, can't be wrong. I am guilty. I don't know what of, but I know I'm a wretch.” nod to The Wretched of the Earth

“But when you take it into your head to express existence, you will very likely encounter nothing but the nonexistent.”

“‘When you hear someone insulting the Jews, pay attention; he is talking about you.’ And I believed at the time he was universally right, meaning that I was responsible in my body and soul for the fate reserved for my brother.”

“Is there in fact any difference between one racism and another? Don't we encounter the same downfall, the same failure of man?”

“Yes, European civilization and its agents of the highest caliber are responsible for colonial racism."

“When another desperately tries to prove to me that the black man is as intelligent as any white man, my response is that neither did intelligence save anybody, for if equality among men is proclaimed in the name of intelligence and philosophy, it is also true that these concepts have been used to justily the extermination of man.“