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“I, the man of color, want only this: That the tool never possess the man. That the enslavement of man by man cease forever.”

Source: Peau noire, masques blancs (1952), 'En guise de conclusion'

Context From the conclusion of his first book, written at 27 after medical training in Lyon, on how colonial racism shapes the minds of Black people.

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Frantz FanonMartinique / Algeria · 1925–1961
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