#1,599

The “cultural” expressions of these “new countries” are not originally born one from another, like branches from the same trunk.
On the contrary, being imported, they superimpose themselves mechanically one onto another, like aeolian alluvia.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 265

#883

The colony which gains its independence passes from acknowledged imitation to artificial originality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 161

#833

Colonialism’s true crime was to turn the great Asiatic peoples into the outskirts of the West.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 153

#337

The basic problem of every former colony—the problem of intellectual servitude, of impoverished tradition, of subaltern spirituality, of inauthentic civilization, of obligatory and shameful imitation—has been resolved for me with supreme simplicity: Catholicism is my native land.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 72