Frantz Fanon Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
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.
For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.
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
Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.
What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.
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.
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.
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.
My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
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.