Mastery Of Language Affords Remarkable Power.

Taking The Continent As A Whole, This Religious Tension May Be Responsible For The Revival Of The Commonest Racial Feeling. Africa Is Divided Into Black And White, And The Names That Are Substituted- Africa South Of The Sahara, Africa North Of The Sahara- Do Not Manage To Hide This Latent Racism. Here, It Is Affirmed That White Africa Has A Thousand-year-old Tradition Of Culture; That She Is Mediterranean, That She Is A Continuation Of Europe And That She Shares In Graeco-latin Civilization. Black Africa Is Looked On As A Region That Is Inert, Brutal, Uncivilized - In A Word, Savage.

To Speak...means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

In The Colonial Context The Settler Only Ends His Work Of Breaking In The Native When The Latter Admits Loudly And Intelligibly The Supremacy Of The White Man's Values.

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.

He Who Is Reluctant To Recognize Me Opposes Me.