There is the newcomer, then. He no longer understands the dialect, he talks about the Opera, which he may never have seen except from a distance, but above all he adopts a critical attitude toward his compatriots. Confronted with the most trivial occurrence, he becomes an oracle. He is the one who knows. He betrays himself in his speech.

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 94