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“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
“As a man, I undertake to risk annihilation so that two or three truths can cast their essential light on the world.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier. After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman.”
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“For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
“I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.”
― Black Skin, White Masks
― Black Skin, White Masks
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