 I discovered myself as an object among other objects…the other fixes me, just like a dye is used to fix a chemical solution….It is not a question of the Black being black anymore, but rather of his being Black opposite the White…we came to have to confront the white gaze …. I was all at once responsible for my body, responsible for my race, for my ancestors. I ran an objective gaze over myself, discovering my blackness, my ethnic characteristics and then I was deafened by cannibalism, intellectual deficiency fetishism, racial defects, slave ships, and above all, above all else, “Sho good Banana”. (1952 [1968: 185–186]) 