“That famous dictatorship, whose supporters believe that it is called for by the historical process and consider it an indispensable prelude to the dawn of independence, in fact symbolizes the decision of the bourgeois caste to govern the underdeveloped country… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. — 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 Image
“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 Image
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. — 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 to become… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
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 Image
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
