"The Negro knows nothing of the cost of freedom for he has not fought for it. From time to time he has fought for Liberty and Justice, but these were always white liberty and white justice, that is, values secreted by his masters."

- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks", 221

"The French Negro is doomed to bite himself and just to bite. I say 'The French Negro' for the American Negro is cast in a different play. In the United States, the Negro battles and is battled. There are laws that, little by little, are invalidated under the constitution." (221)

"There are other laws that forbid certain forms of discrimination. And we can be sure that nothing is going t be given free.

There is war, there are defeats, truces and victories."

- Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 221

"On the field of battle, its four corners marked by the scores of Negroes hanged by their testicles, a monument is slowly being built that promises to be majestic.

And at the top of this monument, I can already see the white man and the black man, hand in hand."

- Fanon, 222

(Note the biting sarcasm. Recall the literal image of black and white hands intertwined at the peak of corporate sponsored #BlackLivesMatter "statements" this summer)

"The Negro is a slave who has been allowed to assume the attitude of a master.

The white man is a master who has allowed his slaves to eat at his table."

--Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks", p. 219

"I do not carry innocence to the point of believing that appeals to reason or to respect for human dignity can alter reality. For the Negro who works on a sugar plantation . . . there is only one solution: to fight."

--Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks", p. 224

"He will embark on this struggle, and he will pursue it, not as the result of a Marxist . . . analysis but quite simply because he cannot conceive of life otherwise than in the form of a battle against exploitation, misery and hunger." (224)

"The Negro, however sincere, is the slave of the past. None the less I am a man and in this sense the Peloponnesian War is as much mine as the invention of the compass."

Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks", p. 225

"The problem considered here is one of time.. Negroes and white men will be desalinated who refuse to let themselves be sealed away in the materialized Tower of the Past. For many other Negroes...disalienation will come.. through..refusal to accept the present as definitive." 226

"I am a man, and what I have to recapture is the whole past of the world. I am not responsible solely for the revolt in Santo Domingo. Every time a man has contributed to the victory of the dignity of the spirit, every time a man.. said no to an attempt to subjugate his fellows +

"I have felt solidarity with his act. In no way should I derive my basic purpose from the past of the peoples of color ...[or] ... the revival of an unjustly unrecognized Negro civilization. I do not want to exalt the past at the expense of my present and my future." --Fanon, 226

"It is not because the Indo-Chinese has discovered a culture of his own that he is in revolt. It is because 'quite simply' it was, in more than one way, becoming impossible for him to breathe."

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, p. 226

". . . freedom requires an effort at disalienation . . . It is though the effort to recapture the self and to scrutinize the self, it is through the lasting tension of their freedom that men will be able to create the ideal conditions of existence for a human world."

-Fanon, 231

"I find myself suddenly alone in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone: That of demanding human behavior from the other. One duty alone: That of not renouncing my freedom . . .

In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself."

- Fanon, 229

"I should constantly remind myself that the real *leap* consists in introducing invention into existence . . . "

"I am part of Being to the degree that I go beyond it."

- Frantz Fanon, p. 229

"Superiority? Inferiority?

Why not the quite simple attempt to touch the other, to feel the other, to explain the other to myself? Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You?"

- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, p. 231-232

"I want the world to recognize, with me, the open door of every consciousness."

- Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 232