Sunday Night Common Sense (On Monday)

I'd had a hectic and fabulous weekend, so the Sunday Night Common Sense is a bit late. But one of the reasons I was late with this was because I enjoyed myself so much at my new book club: Caribbean Literature Book Club which I read about from the Literanista.

Our reading selection was Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. It was just the founder Marcia and I but we had a fabulous time together!

So, today we have one of my favorite quotes from Fanon:

Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to generosity.
p. 222
emphasis in original

Sunday Night Common Sense

It is my last week of teaching. I'm thinking a lot about the several posts I've begun but have yet to finish. As I began to write more and think more I go back to texts I've read several times.

This evening I went to Frantz Fanon. I re-read parts of Black Skin White Masks. One of the many favorite quotes of his that I have from this book includes:

As soon as I desire I am asking to be considered. I am not merely here-and-now, sealed into thingness. I am for somewhere else and for something else. I demand that notice be taken of me negating activity insofar as I pursue something other than life; insofar insofar as I do battle for the creation of a human world-that is, of a world of reciprocal recognitions.

p. 218