Wifredo Lam … sought to represent “the Negro spirit, the beauty of the plastic art of the blacks. In this way I could act as a Trojan horse that would spew forth hallucinating figures with the power to surprise, to disturb the dreams of the exploiters. I knew I was running the risk of not being understood either by the man in the street or by the others. But a true picture has the power to set the imagination to work, even if it takes time.”
Fanon–“I belonged to a race that had already been working in gold and silver two thousand years ago.”
Discourse was less concerned with the specifics of political economy than with a way of thinking. … It is poetry and therefore revolt. (RK)
