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National Liberation, National Renaissance, The Restoration Of Nationhood To The People, Commonwealth: Whatever May Be The Headings Used Or The New Formulas Introduced, Decolonization Is Always A Violent Phenomenon.

What Matters Is Not To Know The World But To Change It.

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.

Anti-semitism Hits Me On The Head: I Am Enraged, I Am Bled White By An Appalling Battle, I Am Deprived Of The Possibility Of Being Man. I Cannot Disassociate Myself From The Future That Is Proposed For My Brother.

Every Colonized People-in Other Words, Every People In Whose Soul An Inferiority Complex Has Been Created By The Death And Burial Of Its Local Cultural Originality-finds Itself Face To Face With The Language Of The Civilizing Nation; That Is, With The Culture Of The Mother Country. The Colonized Is Elevated Above His Jungle Status In Proportion To His Adoption Of The Mother Country's Cultural Standards.