colonies quotes

Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e  conomique est e  galement une superstructure. La cause est conse  quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

- Frantz Omar Fanon
Les Damne  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.1,'Concerning Violence'.

Our fathers have, in process of centuries, provided this realm, its colonies and wide dependencies, with a speech as malleable and pliant as Attic, dignified as Latin, masculine, yet free of Teutonic guttural, capable of being precise as French, dulcet as Italian, sonorous as Spanish, and captaining all these excellences to its service.

- SirArthurThomas known as  'Q' Quiller-Couch
  The Oxford Book of EnglishVerse, preface.

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  EnglishWomen.

If this country is settled, it will be one of the finest Colonies under the Crown, suitable for the growth of anyand everything.

-John McDouall Stuart
  On reaching the sea at the Gulf of Carpentaria. Journal entry, Jul.