Frantz Fanon

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

— Frantz Fanon

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

— Frantz Fanon

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

— Frantz Fanon

Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.

— Frantz Fanon

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

— Frantz Fanon

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

— Frantz Fanon

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

— Frantz Fanon

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

— Frantz Fanon

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him…

— Frantz Fanon

The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways…

— Frantz Fanon

Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the…

— Frantz Fanon

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and…

— Frantz Fanon

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is…

— Frantz Fanon

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has…

— Frantz Fanon

“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people…

— Frantz Fanon

The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they…

— Frantz Fanon

My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties…

— Frantz Fanon

“Nor will we acquiesce in the help for underdeveloped countries being a program of “sisters of charity.” This help should be the…

— Frantz Fanon

“Demanding yet denying the human condition makes for an explosive contradiction. And explode it does, as you and I know. And we…

— Frantz Fanon

When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color…

— Frantz Fanon

“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who…

— Frantz Fanon

“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was…

— Frantz Fanon

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the…

— Frantz Fanon

To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and…

— Frantz Fanon

The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

— Frantz Fanon

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man,…

— Frantz Fanon

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

— Frantz Fanon

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

— Frantz Fanon

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

— Frantz Fanon

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made…

— Frantz Fanon

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there…

— Frantz Fanon

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that…

— Frantz Fanon

Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of…

— Frantz Fanon