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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

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. — Frantz Fanon

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

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. — Frantz Fanon

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

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. — Frantz Fanon

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

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

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

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

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. — Frantz Fanon

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. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

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

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

There is a point at which methods devour themselves. — Frantz Fanon

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

Violence is man re-creating himself. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves. — Frantz Fanon

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. — Frantz Fanon

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

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe . — Frantz Fanon

Whiteness, Fanon asserts, has become a symbol of purity, of Justice, Truth, Virginity. It defi nes what it means to be civilized, modern and human — Anonymous

Mastery of language affords remarkable power. — Frantz Fanon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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