“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

—  Frantz Fanon , book Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

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

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