Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Memmi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Albert Memmi.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.
Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.
I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one. — © Albert Memmi
I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
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