"Fanon himself hated violence. But what he hated more was complicity with violence through a refusal to act."

"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."

"We had a really egalitarian relationship, and I have not found that to be the case too often with male academics."

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."

"Death brings in its wake a peculiar sense of aloneness in which one loses the image of one’s self that another held."