Colonizer’s language and forms can be used as tools without defining the user

Evidence

There is the term Africa itself, there is the language of the colonizer, there are the literary forms of the colonizer and the concept of literature itself, not to mention the strategies of production and distribution in general. These things may either be rejected or accepted - or they may be used as tools on the understanding that the worker is not defined by the tools. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3434

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘The worker is not defined by the tools’ is a genuinely portable life-principle about mastery versus identity-absorption.