Afropessimism Quotes

“I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.”
― Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism

“As a boy I seldom lived in the present. It hurt too much to be in the present. When I occurred to myself I was myself in the future.”
― Frank B. Wilderson III, Afropessimism

“Jouissance” is the word that comes to mind. A French word that means enjoyment, in terms both of rights and property, and of sexual orgasm. (The latter has a meaning partially lacking in the English word “enjoyment.”) Jouissance compels the subject to constantly attempt to transgress the prohibitions imposed on his or her enjoyment, to go beyond the pleasure principle. Jouissance is an anchor tenant of psychoanalysis.”
― Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism