I made up my mind to laugh myself to tears, but laughter had become impossible.
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In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.Frantz Fanon
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.
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However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things . . . and then I found I was an object in the midst of other objects.
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He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
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