Frantz Fanon

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

— Frantz Fanon

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

— Frantz Fanon

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

— Frantz Fanon

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

— Frantz Fanon

“I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?”

— Frantz Fanon

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

— Frantz Fanon

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

— Frantz Fanon

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

— Frantz Fanon

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

— Frantz Fanon

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not…

— Frantz Fanon

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

— Frantz Fanon

“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer…

— Frantz Fanon

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

— Frantz Fanon

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

— Frantz Fanon

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

— Frantz Fanon

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

— Frantz Fanon

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't…

— Frantz Fanon

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and…

— Frantz Fanon

“The militant girl, in adopting new patterns of conduct, could not be judged by traditional standards. Old values, sterile and infantile phobias…

— Frantz Fanon

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will…

— Frantz Fanon

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to…

— Frantz Fanon

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain…

— Frantz Fanon

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of…

— Frantz Fanon

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment…

— Frantz Fanon

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all…

— Frantz Fanon

“When someone strives & strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence…

— Frantz Fanon

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything…

— 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…

— Frantz Fanon

“The missionaries find it opportune to remind the masses that long before the advent of European colonialism the great African empires were…

— Frantz Fanon

“In the colonial countries, on the contrary, the policeman and the soldier, by their immediate presence and their frequent and direct action…

— Frantz Fanon

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country,…

— Frantz Fanon

Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts,…

— Frantz Fanon

“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the…

— Frantz Fanon

“Because it is a systematic negation of the other person and a furious determination to deny the other person all attributes of…

— Frantz Fanon

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe .

— Frantz Fanon

“Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand.”

— Frantz Fanon

“If philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of…

— Frantz Fanon

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to…

— Frantz Fanon

“I do battle for the creation of a human world - that ism a world of reciprocal recognition.”

— Frantz Fanon

“My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a man who questions!" - Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks”

— Frantz Fanon