Who is Mactar? He has passed his baccalaureate, he is an accountant in the Department of Rivers, and he is pursuing a perfectly stupid little stenographer, who has, however, the least disputable quality: She is almost white. Therefore one must apologize for taking the liberty of sending her a letter: "the utmost insolence, perhaps the first that any Negro had dared to attempt."

Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, loc. 200