I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a… — 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
