In Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon offers a potent philosophical, clinical, literary and

political analysis of the deep effects of racism and colonialism on the experiences, lives,

minds and relationships of black people and people of colour.

“I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive

understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos,

and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis

Armstrong and the music of the Congo.” (Fanon, 1967, p.45)

In Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ considers "colonial alienation," ultimately an alienation

from one's self, identity, and heritage, linguistic oppression to be imperialism's greatest threat

to the nations of Africa.

“The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they

arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal

decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies

starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its

comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.” (Thingo, 1998, p.194)
 The Bluest Eye

“It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held
the pictures, and knew the sights—if those eyes of hers were different, that is
to say, beautiful, she herself would be different...Pretty eyes. Pretty blue eyes. Big
blue pretty eyes. ” (Narrator, p.33)

“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed.” (Claudia, p.153)

Song of Solomon

“As the stars made themselves visible, Milkman tried to figure what was true and what part
of what was true had anything to do with him.” (1.3.75)

“The stout woman turned her head slowly, her eyebrows lifted at the carelessness of the
address. Then, seeing where the voice came from, she lowered her brows and veiled her
eyes.” (1.1.11)

Paradise

“Bodacious black Eves unredeemed by Mary, they are like panicked does leaping toward a
sun that has finished burning off the mist and now pours its holy oil over the hides of game.
God at their side, the men take aim. For Ruby.” (Narrator, 18)

“The peace and goodwill summoned by the announcement of the marriage were now
shattered. The peace and goodwill summoned by the announcement of the marriage were
now shattered. The reception at her house would be a further digest of the problem, and most
disturbing, Soane, unbeknownst to others, had made the mistake of inviting Connie and the
Convent girls to the wedding reception.” (Narrator, 154)