"Taking the continent as a whole, this religious……" — Frantz Fanon
"Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage."
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73 Quotes by Frantz Fanon
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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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The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.
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