“There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”

—  Frantz Fanon , book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

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Martiniquais writer, psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutiona… 1925–1961

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