For The Black Man There Is Only

The Gaze That The Colonized Subject Casts At The Colonist's Sector Is A Look Of Lust, A Look Of Envy. Dreams Of Possession. Every Type Of Possession; Of Sitting At The Colonist's Table And Sleeping In His Bed, Preferably With His Wife. The Colonized Man Is An Envious Man.

My Intimate Knowledge Of Many Central African Tribes Has Everywhere Convinced Me Of The Necessity That The Negro Does Not Respect Treaties But Only Brute Force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar Von Trotha On German South West Africa “at The Level Of Individuals, Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction, It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect.

I, The Man Of Color, Want Only This: That The Tool Never Possess The Man. That The Enslavement Of Man By Man Cease Forever. That Is, Of One By Another. That It Be Possible For Me To Discover And To Love Man, Wherever He May Be.

The Church In The Colonies Is The White People's Church, The Foreigner's Church. She Does Not Call The Native To God's Ways But To The Ways Of The White Man, Of The Master, Of The Oppressor.

The Business Of Obscuring Language Is A Mask Behind Which Stands The Much Bigger Business Of Plunder.