To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
“Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity.” This help should be the ratification of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.” — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share
