“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”

—  Frantz Fanon , book Black Skin, White Masks

"The Lived Experience of the Black Man"/"The Fact of Blackness"
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

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