Le colonialisme ne se satisfait pas d'enserrer le peuple dans ses mailles, de vider le cerveau colonise¤   de toute forme et de tout contenu. Par une sorte de perversion de la logique, il s'oriente vers le passe¤   du peuple opprime¤  , le distort, le de¤  figure, l'ane¤  antit. Colonialismisnot satisfiedmerely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. Bya kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.4,'On National Culture'.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

-Friday, Nancy
  My Mother, My Self, ch.1.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

-Tuchman, BarbaraW(ertheim)
  The Guns of August, ch.2.

One by one the objects are definedö It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entranceöStill, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.

-Williams,William Carlos
  Spring and All,'Spring and All'.