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“The crippled soldier from the Pacific war tells my brother: “Get used to your color the way I got…”
“The crippled soldier from the Pacific war tells my brother: “Get used to your color the way I got…”

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“The crippled soldier from the Pacific war tells my brother: “Get used to your color the way I got used to my stump. We are both casualties.” Yet, with all my being, I refuse to accept this amputation. I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity.”

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

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