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To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
In no way should my color be regarded as a flaw.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
The colonial regime owes its legitimacy to force and at no time does it ever endeavor to cover up this nature of things.
The Wretched of The Earth (1961)
In every society, in every collectivity, exists - a channel, an outlet through which the forces accumulated in the form of aggression.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
The Negro is a toy in the white man's hands; so, in order to shatter the hellish cycle, he explodes.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
The serf is essentially different from the knight, but a reference to divine right is needed to justify this difference in status.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
What is South Africa? A boiler into which thirteen million blacks are clubbed and penned in by two and a half million whites.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
The colonized can see right away if decolonization is taking place or not: The minimum demand is that the last become the first.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!
Yes, European civilization and its best representatives are responsible for colonial racism.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
Every one of my acts commits me as a man. Every one of my silences, every one of my cowardices reveals me as a man.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
As soon as they are born it is obvious to them that their cramped world, riddled with taboos, can only be challenged by out and out violence.
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have withdrawn their flag and their police force from our territories.
The Wretched of The Earth (1961)
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
"Brother," "sister," "comrade" are words outlawed by the colonialist bourgeoisie because in their thinking my brother is my wallet and my comrade, my scheming.
The Wretched of the Earth (1963)