Frantz Fanon quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Frantz Fanon on Wise Famous Quotes.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.

nationalize the tertiary sector. The bourgeoisie, who wants the spirit of lucre

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

I do battle for the creation
of a human world - that ism
a world of reciprocal recognition.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

The colonized, underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term. Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone. I shouted my laughter to the
stars.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

Color is nothing, I do not even notice it, I know only one thing, which is the purity of my conscience and the whiteness of my soul.

When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Oh my body, make of me a man who always questions!

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

There is a psychological phenomenon that consists in the belief that the world will open to the extent to which frontiers are broken down.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe .

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks

There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the standard.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder.

Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.