Look Not For Me

“This book should have been written three years ago….But these truths were a fire in me then. Now I can tell them without being burned. These truths do not have to be hurled in men’s faces. They are not intended to ignite fervor. I do not trust fervor.

Every time it has burst out somewhere, it has brought fire, famine, misery…And contempt of man. Fervor is the weapon of the impotent. Of those who heat the iron in order to shape it at once. I should prefer to warm man’s body and leave him.”

Frantz Fanon, the introduction to ‘Black Skin, White Masks’