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title: "4 Inferiority Quotes By Frantz Fanon"
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> [The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-negro-enslaved-by-his-inferiority-the-white-man-enslaved-by-his/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

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> [Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/violence-is-a-cleansing-force-it-frees-the-native-from-his/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

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> [My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/my-intimate-knowledge-of-many-central-african-tribes-has-everywhere/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

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> [Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/every-colonized-people-in-other-words-every-people-in-whose-soul-an/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

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## Other authors on Inferiority

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-adler-11252.jpg) Alfred Adler 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inferiority/alfred-adler/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simone-de-beauvoir-85532.jpg) Simone de Beauvoir 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inferiority/simone-de-beauvoir/)
- [Martin Luther King, Jr 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inferiority/martin-luther-king-jr/)

## More by Frantz Fanon

> [The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-unpreparedness-of-the-educated-classes-the-lack-of-practical/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-passion-with-which-native-intellectuals-defend-the-existence-of/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/one-avoids-creolisms-some-families-completely-forbid-creole-and/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/hate-demands-existence-and-he-who-hates-has-to-show-his-hate-in/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/fervor-is-the-weapon-of-choice-for-the-impotent/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/capitalist-exploitation-and-cartels-and-monopolies-are-the-enemies-of/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-living-expression-of-the-nation-is-the-collective-consciousness/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the hope of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-claim-to-a-national-culture-in-the-past-does-not-only/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-business-of-obscuring-language-is-a-mask-behind-which-stands-the/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/get-used-to-me-i-am-not-getting-used-to-anyone/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/to-speak-pidgin-to-a-negro-makes-him-angry-because-he-himself-is-a/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [“Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity.” This help should be the ratification of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/nor-will-we-acquiesce-in-the-help-for-underdeveloped-countries-being/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/the-oppressed-will-always-believe-the-worst-about-themselves/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

> [“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/everything-can-be-explained-to-the-people-on-the-single-condition/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frantz-fanon/for-the-beloved-should-not-allow-me-to-turn-my-infantile-fantasies/)

[Frantz Fanon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frantz-fanon/)

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