Best Frantz Fanon Quotes
- My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… Adrian
- Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration… Abhors
- No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. Attempt
- I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… Abandonment
- There is a point at which methods devour themselves. Devour
- Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress,… Based
- The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often… All
- However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one… Accept
- 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… All
- He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. Funny
- Violence is man re-creating himself. Creating
- For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread… All
- 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… Alone
- The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be… Class
- Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. Betray
- The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which… Address
- O my body, make of me always a man who questions! Body
- Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well. Behind
- Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a… Ago
- To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Culture
- Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot… Accepted
- When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… Antilles
- I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the… Able
- To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. All
- Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Affords