Fanon, "By Way of Conclusion"

[Dave Monroe]

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (Trans. Charles Lam Markmann.  New
York: Grove Press, 1967 [1952]).

The problem considered here is one of time.  Those Negroes and white men
will be disalientated who refuse to let themselves be sealed away in the
materialized Tower of the Past.  (226)

There are those who talk of a so-called Asiatic attitude toward death.
(227)

The Vietnamese who die before the firing squads are not hoping that
their sacrifice will bring about the reappearance of a past.  It is for
the sake of the present and of the future that they are willing to die.
(227)

I, the man of color, want only this:
That the tool never possess the man.  (231)

My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions! (232)