"I am black: I am the incarnation 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 of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo."
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73 Quotes by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon has 73 quotes on this site.
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Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived…
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Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense,…
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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge…
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The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his…
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Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is…
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I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my…
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For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help…
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I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness
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A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it…
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In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly…
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To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try,…
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The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
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