“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air 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 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
