Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth: Key Passages

“Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952): 'I am overdetermined from without. I am not a slave of the "Idea" that others have of me but of my appearance. I am fixed... The Antilles Negro who wants to be white will be the more unhappy the more he rejects his own blackness... All colonized people, in other words, people in whom an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality, find themselves face to face with the language of the civilizing nation.' [...] The train scene: 'Look, a Negro! [...] Mama, see the Negro! I'm frightened! Frightened! Frightened! Now they were beginning to be afraid of me. I made up my mind to laugh myself to tears, but laughter had become impossible.' [...] Wretched of the Earth (1961), On Violence: 'The colonial world is a Manichaean world. It is not enough for the settler to delimit physically... the place of the native. As if to show the totalitarian character of colonial exploitation the settler paints the native as a sort of quintessence of evil.' [...] On the pitfalls: 'The national bourgeoisie... uses its class aggressiveness to corner the positions formerly kept for foreigners... Its thinking is moulded on that of its homologue in Europe... It will in practice show itself incapable of great ideas or of inventiveness.' — Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952); The Wretched of the Earth (1961); SEP 'Frantz Fanon'; groveatlantic.com”