to speak

“For it is implicit that to speak is to exist absolutely for the other.”

“To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp a morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”

p. 17-18, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

~ by wehavetobehavetobeerrant on January 30, 2008.